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The Social Democrats request that Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M) and Defense Minister Pål Jonson (M) come to the foreign and defense committees respectively.
This is to “clarify” the government’s attitude to nuclear weapons on Swedish soil.
S believes that since last week the government has been unclear about whether nuclear weapons can be placed on Swedish territory.
“These are big and decisive questions for Sweden’s security policy. It is therefore important that the government now comes to the Riksdag and clarifies its position,” says Morgan Johansson, vice chairman of the foreign affairs committee, in a press release.
S “firmly rejects” nuclear weapons on Swedish soil.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) said on Tuesday last week that he does not want to demand any formal exemptions for nuclear weapons when Sweden joins NATO. At the same time, he raised the conditions that Denmark and Norway have about not having nuclear weapons or permanent NATO troops in peacetime.
When S swung around NATO last spring, then Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson (S) declared that Sweden should not have nuclear weapons or permanent bases on Swedish soil. Something that, among others, the Moderates and the Center Party stood behind.
NATO does not possess any nuclear weapons. The European countries, apart from Great Britain and France, that have nuclear weapons on their soil have agreements with the United States.