Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Anderson has told party members that joining NATO will give the country “a special responsibility” for security in the Baltic Sea, according to an article in the TT news agency, according to Bloomberg.
“If Sweden is attacked, then we have a better chance of getting support from other countries, but you also give security guarantees,” Anderson told party members in Sodiberberg, Sweden, ahead of a May 1 speech in central Stockholm.
Sweden, along with Finland, began discussing membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization following Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Anderson told members of her party that if Finland chose to join the military alliance, “Sweden would be more vulnerable if we did not join.”
Asked about the prospect of nuclear weapons on Swedish soil, the prime minister pointed to the example of the Social Democrats in Norway. “They have been in NATO for a long time, but they are incredibly active internationally in both mediation and disarmament,” he said.
Sweden plans to publish a white paper on NATO membership on May 13, a day after the end of the Anderson Social Democrats’s internal debates on the issue.
Source: News Beast
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