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Thursday, December 2, 2010

U.S. sees Sweden as a "strong partner"

Sweden has an official stance on the alliance, but really so is cooperation with the military alliance NATO deeper than Sweden are giving the message. It said the U.S. embassy in Sweden in a report back to the United States, spring 2007, shown in the document that the site Wikileaks leaked.

The case of 672 telegrams which have passed from the U.S. embassy in Stockholm to the U.S.. In one of them, which is kept secret, writes the former ambassador Michael Wood in May 2007:
"Sweden's official policy of nonalignment is a lie ... This is because Sweden is participating in NATO's Partnership for Peace and also leads the EU's Nordic Battle Group." In English, reads the words: "give the lie to the official policy."
Sweden may also be graded to be a strong and pragmatic partner, by Ambassador Michael Wood.
The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet that have been supplied with documents from Wikileaks.
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt will be better placed to work with the U.S. than his predecessor, Goran Persson, says in a new telegram.
The U.S. embassy is often a conversation with Mr Tolgfors, or officers of the Department of Defense, expressed in the reports.
It is in the messages that are classified by the U.S. ambassador has referred calls to Swedish politicians.
Defence Minister Sten Tolgfors (M) writes in a note to Radio that he did not think there are some startling data involved. And he would not review the contents of the U.S. Embassy reports. Membership of NATO is not an issue only for Sweden to cooperate with NATO in Kosovo and Afghanistan, writes the minister.
Allan Widman, defense policy spokesman of the Liberal Party said this morning in P1 this morning.
- Since I agree that there has been little public debate on the renewal of security that have occurred in recent years. But it depends not on whether the Persson government or government Reinfeldt has dark, but you've reported in government statements and collaborative document that our cooperation with NATO will be stronger and stronger, but unfortunately there has been no public debate, "said Allan Widman.

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