Today, the Swedish parliament approved the government’s plan to send troops to Sudan to evacuate Swedish nationals there.
The Swedish Parliament approved a proposal to allow the government to send a unit of up to 400 soldiers to evacuate Swedish citizens and foreigners from Sudan, according to the proposal of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The committee said that sending those forces should be done in close coordination with other countries and international organizations.
The approval comes a day after Tobias Bilstrom, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Pal Johnson, Minister of Defense, announced that they would ask Parliament to agree to send an armed unit to Sudan to evacuate nationals, as the approval of Parliament in Sweden is a condition for sending armed forces abroad.
Johnson said: The unit must be able to carry out protection, rescue and liberation tasks on its own or with partner countries.
Since the fifteenth of April, armed clashes have continued between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces. The situation there prompted a number of countries to evacuate their nationals from Sudan.
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