Sweden’s prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, told party members that joining NATO would give the country “a special responsibility” for security in the Baltic Sea, according to an article by news agency TT.
“If Sweden is attacked then we have better opportunities to get support from other countries, but you also give security guarantees,” Andersson told party members in Sundbyberg, Sweden, ahead of a May 1 speech in central Stockholm.
Sweden, along with is Nordic neighbor Finland, began deliberating membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. Andersson told her party members that if Finland chooses to join the military alliance, “Sweden will be more vulnerable if we do not become members.”
