US awaits parliamentary approval to access Swedish military bases

Sweden and the US are awaiting the approval of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) to implement a just lately signed defence cooperation settlement (DCA) which might enable for the Pentagon to entry 17 Swedish navy bases and preposition shares, in addition to conduct operations within the Scandinavian nation.

Beneath the settlement, US personnel, together with navy and civilian employees, their households and suppliers in Sweden will likely be topic to US jurisdiction.

Maj Genl Johan Pekkari, chief of the Swedish Armed Forces Technique Command, pressured that the DCA doesn’t essentially imply that the US troops will likely be current in any respect 17 areas.

‘The settlement is designed