“The negotiations have gone very well and there are no outstanding issues left to negotiate. The agreement is in that sense finalized,” writes chief negotiator Samuel Rudvall in an email to the newspaper.
Samuel Rudvall, who is also ministerial councilor at the Ministry of Defence, expects the agreement to be implemented at the end of next year.
The agreement, the Defense cooperation agreement (DCA), aims to make it easier and faster for Sweden to receive American military support. This means that the US gets access to a number of Swedish military bases and can store defense equipment here.
Norway, the Baltic countries, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic already have similar DCA agreements. In Denmark, the negotiations are ongoing and in Finland, just like in Sweden, they have recently been concluded.