INF Agreement - Has expired

A ban on ground-based robots with a range from 500 km to 5,500 km. The agreement was signed between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987. The agreement expired in August 2019 after the United States announced their withdrawal. Shortly thereafter, Russia stated that they had signed the agreement.

New Start - Expires 2021

The agreement regulates the countries' strategic nuclear weapons and has contributed to a sharp reduction in the strategic robots since the end of the Cold War. They are used against strategic targets such as military bases or larger cities.

The new Start Agreement expires in February 2021 unless both parties agree to extend it.

In 2019, no progress was made in extending the agreement or in negotiating a follow-up treaty. This was partly due to the US government's demand that China must participate in future talks on nuclear weapons restrictions, which China has categorically excluded. 

Open Skies - USA leaves

In May 2020, the United States announced that they were leaving Open Skies - an agreement that allows Russia, the United States and some 30 other countries to monitor each other by air, to control their armor and thus increase relaxation.

The agreement is in place for member states to verify that the civil and military infrastructures another country claims to have existed in reality.

Since Sweden signed the Open Skies agreement in 2002, Sweden has had access to the other 33 member countries' airspace, and vice versa.

NPT agreement - review advanced

191 countries, including Sweden, are party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

It is an international agreement from 1968 aimed at preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear technology and fissile material and production facilities.

Five of the nine nuclear weapons states are affiliated (USA, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom).

India, Pakistan and Israel have not signed the agreement.

North Korea joined the agreement in 1985, but announced in 2003 that the country had left the agreement.

Every five years, a large review conference takes place. It was to be held at the UN headquarters in New York in the spring of 2020.

Due to the corona pandemic, the review has progressed to 2021.