Sweden ready to consider installing nuclear weapons

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“It is natural for Sweden and Finland to act together on this matter and we must follow the same formalities,” said the head of the Swedish government.

Sweden is ready to consider installing nuclear weapons on its soil once it joins NATO, new Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson said, flanked by his Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin.

“We should not set any conditions,” Sana Marin initially said during a joint press conference in Helsinki. “We decided we didn’t want to close any doors.”

“You will get from me exactly the same answer as the Prime Minister of Finland,” Kristersson added.

“It is natural for Sweden and Finland to act together on this matter and we must follow the same formalities,” said the head of the Swedish government. “So I intend to go hand in hand with Finland.”

Marin and Christerson admitted, however, that while their countries had some reservations, they could express them “later.”

Denmark and Norway, both NATO member countries, have refused to install nuclear weapons or permanent bases of foreign forces on their soil.

To date, 28 of the 30 NATO member states have ratified the accession of Sweden and Finland, which is expected to be approved unanimously. Only Hungary and Turkey remain to give their final consent.

Christerson spoke by phone last Wednesday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as Sweden tries to persuade Ankara to ratify its NATO membership.

The Turkish president has been threatening since mid-May to block the two countries’ entry into NATO, accusing Sweden and Finland of harboring Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the People’s Protection Units, considered terrorist organizations by Ankara. .

Erdogan warned that the Turkish parliament would not ratify the two countries’ accession unless Ankara’s extradition requests were met.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will be received in Turkey on November 4 by President Erdogan to discuss Ankara’s ratification of the accession of Sweden and Finland, a senior Turkish official told AFP on Friday.

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