Open quarrel between M and S of defense policy – Swedish Dagbladet

Just over two weeks for the broad, partisan defense noises in the settlement are now quite different between the parties. M and S open quarrel openly about what Löfven actually means by his statements in an interview in Sydsvenskan, where he says that “it is good that Sweden and Finland are aligned. Then you have two geographic areas free “.

– I am surprised at the statements and I understand that the spreading insecurity, especially in, for example, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland in our region who are themselves land border with Russia, says Conservative leader Anna Kinberg Batra.

Stefan Löfven to SvD:

– We have built earlier alliances that we think it is good that both we and Finland are aligned that there is that kind of surfaces even in our neighborhood and the analysis stands up very well.

Do you regret this statement?

– No, why would I do that?

The fight started is already in the parliamentary rostrum when the Moderates defense political spokesperson Hans Wallmark pressed Foreign Minister Mrs Wallström on what Löfven said about the Swedish nonalignment by transferring the reasoning for Ukraine’s experience of being “geographically free area” outside NATO “in the vicinity of the Russian Federation”.

– So far we have been in agreement, but now I think it was a very superficial analysis of security policy choices. We can not compare our position and our position in Ukraine, said Margot Wallström.

Hans Wallmark to SvD:

– I think she realizes that she has a fairly extensive cleaning tasks ahead of it, because it is remarkable with the doctrine that the prime minister is now trying to carve out with geographically open areas and some sort of buffer state reasoning.

Anna Kinberg Batra asked the turn Stefan Löfven “why Sweden’s role in an uncertain environment should be reduced to being a land of free geographical areas” – some kind of “buffer zone between the different parties.” Löfven referred to the normally existed “as broad a consensus as possible about security issues,” but that now seems “to be a contentious issue.”

According to Stefan Löfven based Swedish security “three principles”.

– The first is that we should look to contribute to peace and security for Sweden, it is important, our borders. The second is that we must have security and stability in the neighborhood, and the third is that we should contribute to international security. The three principles have always been indicative and we have had alliances for many, many years.

Hans Wallmark left on Thursday in an interpellation to the Swedish Parliament where Stefan Löfven requested to clarify its reasoning on “geographically free surfaces”.