Hussar: Sweden’s membership in NATO is our aim

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Hussar said at the meeting that Estonia wanted to deepen further its good relations and active cooperation with Sweden. “Our aim is your membership in NATO. I hope that we will see Sweden as member of NATO already at Vilnius Summit,” he said at the meeting with the King and the Queen. “The defence cooperation between Estonia and Sweden is excellent, but we look forward to using the new opportunities arising from NATO membership as well. This would strengthen the defence capability of the whole region and help take our defence cooperation to a new level.”

Hussar said that Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine had brought both national defence and civil protection under greater attention in the whole Europe. He explained that, in Estonia, there was an agreement to raise national defence expenses to three percent of GDP and at the same time to continue the development of civil protection. He emphasised the importance of psychological defence and noted that Estonia and Sweden could cooperate more in that sphere as well.

Chair of the Estonia-Sweden Parliamentary Friendship Group and the European Union Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu Liisa Pakosta also attended the meeting with the King and Queen of Sweden.

The King and Queen of Sweden are on a state visit to Estonia at the invitation of President of the Republic Alar Karis. The visit started today and lasts until Thursday.

Photos (Erik Peinar / Chancellery of the Riigikogu)

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Source: Parliament of Estonia