Almost nine in ten Swedes in favour of UN nuclear bomb ban
Almost nine in ten Swedes want Sweden to sign a United Nations resolution banning nuclear weapons, according to a new survey.
The majority of respondents, 86 percent, said they thought Sweden should sign the hotly debated resolution. Six percent had no opinion and the rest said they did not think Sweden should sign it.
The survey was conducted by pollsters Sifo on behalf of the Olof Palme International Center.
The treaty was first backed by 122 countries including Sweden in a vote at the New York UN headquarters in July, but countries with nuclear arms boycotted the conference, as did some of their allies.
Sweden's Social Democrat-Green coalition government has since launched an inquiry to decide whether or not to sign it.
The centre-right opposition has criticized the resolution, and US Defence Minister Jim Mattis is said to have written to his Swedish counterpart Peter Hultqvist to warn him that it could damage Sweden-US military relations.
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The majority of respondents, 86 percent, said they thought Sweden should sign the hotly debated resolution. Six percent had no opinion and the rest said they did not think Sweden should sign it.
The survey was conducted by pollsters Sifo on behalf of the Olof Palme International Center.
The treaty was first backed by 122 countries including Sweden in a vote at the New York UN headquarters in July, but countries with nuclear arms boycotted the conference, as did some of their allies.
Sweden's Social Democrat-Green coalition government has since launched an inquiry to decide whether or not to sign it.
The centre-right opposition has criticized the resolution, and US Defence Minister Jim Mattis is said to have written to his Swedish counterpart Peter Hultqvist to warn him that it could damage Sweden-US military relations.
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