By Essi Lehto and Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) -NATO member Finland plans to quit a global convention banning anti-personnel landmines and boost defence spending to at least 3% of GDP by 2029 in ...

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said a fundamentally changed security environment in Europe prompted the decision by Finland -- a NATO member bordering Russia -- to pull out of the 1997 Ottawa Treaty.

Finland has announced it will withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, an international treaty banning anti-personnel mines, ...

GENEVA, April 4 (Reuters) - NATO members Poland, Finland and all three Baltic states have queued up over the past few weeks ...

A three-decade global effort to end the use of land mines appears to be over. Finland and other European countries are ...

Finland has announced plans to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty as countries in Europe shore up against potential threats from Russia. The Ottawa Treaty is the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention ...

Finland’s government plans to raise the country’s defense spending to 3% of economic output by 2029 to address the risks from a more aggressive Russia, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said.

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said a fundamentally changed security environment in Europe prompted the decision by Finland — a NATO member bordering Russia — to pull out of the 1997 Ottawa Treaty.

The government, along with two other Baltic nations and Poland, agreed last month to quit the 1997 accord that prohibits from ...

The Latvian parliament voted to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Latvian parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention ...

Eastern flank – Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene welcomed Finland’s plan to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, saying in a Facebook post it was “a clear sign that the region is ...