section_path: Presidency (2020–present)/Finnish and Swedish NATO accession
section_name: Finnish and Swedish NATO accession
paragraph_text: Finnish and Swedish NATO accession
  
  In April 2022, Milanović suggested blocking Finnish and Swedish accession to NATO until an electoral law in Bosnia and Herzegovina allowing Bosniaks the option of electing a Croat member of the presidency and Croat representatives in the House of Peoples of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was changed. He went on to say that he would label as a political traitor any member of Croatia's Parliament, the Sabor, who refused to vote against the expansion of NATO. On 28 April 2022, Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić-Radman announced that Croatia supported Finland's and Sweden's applications for membership in NATO. On 18 May 2022, Milanović said in a statement regarding the NATO membership of Finland and Sweden that Croatia's stance on the NATO membership of Finland and Sweden should be similar to the status of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and he said that Turkey 's stance regarding the membership of the two countries reveals the functioning of serious states. After Finland's foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, stated that his country was shocked by Milanović's statements, Milanović responded by saying: "Welcome to the club, Mister Foreign Minister. We have been shocked for several years already by your ignorance and rudeness." However, the Finnish Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering, Tytti Tuppurainen, later commented that although the citizens of Finland were confused by Milanović's statements, Finland understood Croatian concerns about the reform of the electoral law in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that Finland supported international efforts to change the law. His prior comments notwithstanding, Milanović did not veto Finnish and Swedish NATO accession at the 2022 NATO Madrid summit. In July 2022, the Croatian Parliament officially and unanimously accepted the applications of both Finland and Sweden to join NATO.