The Liberals' foreign policy spokesman Johan Pehrson describes recent developments on the Russian-Ukrainian border and in Kazakhstan as a serious situation.
The party therefore wants the government to convene the Foreign Affairs Committee to inform about the government's measures "due to the Russian escalation and verbal aggression".
-I have heard what Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist has said, and I saw that Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson spoke today.
These were expected answers, but we want to know what the government's plans are if they talk about further initiatives, says Pehrson.
"Not acceptable"
The Christian Democrats' party leader Ebba Busch says in a written comment to TT that the security policy situation in Sweden's immediate area is very serious, and that the government should urgently convene the Foreign Affairs Committee.
"The Russian demands for a new security system in Europe with demands that sovereign states such as Ukraine but also Sweden should not be allowed to decide independently whether they want to belong to NATO or not are obviously not acceptable.
The government now needs to broadly anchor how it intends to act in foreign and security policy, ”says Busch.
"Inform the opposition"
The moderates think that the demand that the government convene the Foreign Affairs Committee is "a good proposal", but do not want to support it because the party believes that there may be better ways to inform the opposition.
- It has to do with the formal requirements, it takes longer to convene a foreign affairs committee than to have a party deliberation on security policy, says foreign policy spokesman Hans Wallmark (M) and continues:
- But that one should keep the opposition informed, and that one should strive for a breadth around security policy, it is reasonable.
TT has also asked the Sweden Democrats for a comment.