A Defense Cooperation Agreement between the United States and Sweden, signed on 5 December 2023, setting the legal framework for US forces' presence and activities at agreed facilities and areas in Sweden.
Eine symmetrische Vereinbarung: Sie liest sich von beiden Seiten gleich. Einmal verfasst, in einem Eintrag.
Die Vereinbarung
- Status
- AktivIn Kraft und in Anwendung. Sagt nichts darüber aus, wie gut es funktioniert oder in welche Richtung es sich bewegt.
- Was sie umfasst
- VerteidigungStationierungRechtlich und vertraglichKategorien, die die Vereinbarung nachweislich umfasst. Kein Maß: Eine Beziehung, die mehr davon umfasst, ist ausführlicher beschrieben, nicht gefestigter.
Zusammenfassung
The United States and Sweden signed a Defense Cooperation Agreement on 5 December 2023, three months before Sweden became NATO's thirty-second member. Like the agreements the United States signed with Finland and Denmark the same month, it sets the legal terms under which US forces may be present at and use agreed facilities and areas, supplementing the NATO status-of-forces arrangements. It is an access framework, not a stationing decision: the agreement says where US forces may operate, not that any are there.
Warum es wichtig ist
The three Nordic agreements of December 2023 put the northern approaches on the same legal footing the United States has with Poland and Romania. For a reinforcement system, whether forces can legally operate from a place is settled before any crisis, and these instruments are where it was settled for Sweden.
Abkommen
- US-Sweden Defense Cooperation Agreement · unterzeichnet 2023-12-05
Signed in Washington. Its entry into force and the list of agreed facilities are not carried here.
Verwandte Ereignisse
- Schweden tritt dem Bündnis bei 7. März 2024
Political · Diplomatic · Territorial change
Was unbekannt bleibt
- The agreed facilities and areas are not enumerated. Base locations are governed by this module's sensitivity rules and are not authored from this agreement.
- The date of entry into force was not read for this pass.
- No US presence in Sweden is recorded on the strength of the agreement; access is not stationing.
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Eingeschätzt zum Stand — 2023-12-05 Zuletzt überprüft — 2026-10-29