In June, the Riksdag will vote on the government's bill on a military cooperation agreement with the United States, a so-called DCA agreement, which gives the American military the right to use 17 Swedish military bases across the country.

The agreement has been criticized because, unlike in Denmark and Norway, it lacks writings about a ban on nuclear weapons in Sweden. The government believes it is not necessary because there is a parliamentary decision that there should be no nuclear weapons on Swedish territory in peacetime.

In an interview in P1 Morgon on Monday morning, however, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) opens up that the issue can be reconsidered in the event of war in Sweden.

- In a war situation, it is a completely different matter. Should the very worst happen, the democratic countries in our part of the world must of course be able to defend themselves against countries that could threaten with nuclear weapons, he says and continues:

- But our entire NATO membership and our entire Swedish defense aim to prevent that situation from occurring. If Ukraine had been a member of NATO, they would not have been attacked by Russia.

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