Russia’s intensifying attacks on Ukraine dominated the meeting of the prime ministers of the Nordic countries and the German chancellor in Stockholm.
STOCKHOLM Prime Minister of Sweden and chairman of the Norwegian Confederation Ulf Kristersson was invited to Monday morning’s radio broadcast to go through the Nordic Prime Minister’s Five and the German Chancellor By Olaf Scholz meeting agenda.
In the same interview, Kristersson outlined wartime nuclear weapons.
Kristersson does not see any obstacles to the fact that NATO’s nuclear weapons could be placed in Sweden during the war.
The issue has been unclear for a long time, and the policy has been expected at the latest in connection with the Swedish Diet discussing the DCA agreement between Sweden and the United States. The agreement records how and where US military forces can operate in Sweden.
In Sweden, there is a law in force according to which nuclear weapons are not allowed on Swedish soil during peacetime.
– During the war, the situation is completely different, Kristersson repeated several times in the radio interview.
Kristersson emphasized, however, that the decision is always the Swedes’ and, for example, the defense alliance could not import nuclear weapons against Sweden’s will. However, Kristersson reminded that the entire NATO membership includes the idea of the defense alliance’s nuclear weapons protection.
Orpo: There is no reason to change the current law
Finland’s corresponding agreement has already been approved by the parliament.
Prime minister Petteri Orpon (collective), Finland is not going to follow Sweden’s Kristersson’s example.
– We have not had such a discussion in Finland. We now have a clear line that there is no need to open up the Nuclear Energy Act and we can continue within the framework of the current legislation, Orpo said after the meeting of the prime ministers of the Nordic countries.
Nuclear weapons have now been regulated as well in the Nuclear Energy Act that in the criminal law. They are prohibited on Finnish soil.
Changes have been planned to the Nuclear Energy Act, because the current law does not take into account, for example, the small nuclear power plants of the future.