Joint assertion by Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Kristersson

Northern allies, innovators, and commerce companions: Strategic partnership between Canada and Sweden

A partnership based mostly on widespread values and mutual pursuits

Canada and Sweden (the “Participants”) share a detailed relationship with intensive cooperation based mostly on widespread values and mutual pursuits. As NATO Allies, we stand united in defending our freedom, territories, values, and pursuits. We are like-minded Arctic nations with shared pursuits within the North Atlantic and the Arctic area, and who recognise the very important contributions and rights of Indigenous Peoples within the Arctic consistent with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and worldwide regulation. Canada and Sweden affirm our robust dedication to democracy and multilateralism, and to upholding human rights, together with gender equality, the rule of regulation and the rules-based worldwide order and commerce system. 

We verify our shared want to bolster our bilateral relations by means of the institution of this Strategic Partnership. It will strengthen the already shut relations between our nations and additional develop our cooperation in key coverage areas, inter alia, competitiveness, commerce and funding, financial improvement, safety and defence, digital transition, science and analysis, innovation and expertise, inexperienced transition, local weather and power, and Arctic cooperation and North-North connections. This Strategic Partnership displays the wealthy and deepening ties between our peoples, governments, establishments, and companies throughout the breadth of our relationship. It is aligned with the EU-Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement, EU-Canada Security and Defence Partnership and Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

A dependable commerce partnership

We are like-minded supporters of free and rules-based commerce. Canada and Sweden have complementary economies and luxuriate in a powerful and rising industrial relationship, and this Strategic Partnership can unlock important alternatives for each nations. The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement provides predictability and transparency for companies from each nations, and our nations are witnessing quickly rising commerce and funding relations.

Canada and Sweden will work collectively to additional strengthen our enterprise, industrial and industrial hyperlinks, focusing notably on sectors that can be handiest in enhancing the competitiveness, and productiveness of our economies. We are dedicated to additional diversifying and strengthening the resilience of our respective economies whereas decreasing vulnerabilities in provide chains to attenuate dangerous dependencies.

This Strategic Partnership goals at selling competitiveness and revolutionary options to societal challenges, such because the digital and inexperienced transition, in addition to rising strategic challenges. Leveraging key sources – equivalent to our crucial minerals, power, and expertise – will create new market alternatives for Canadian and Swedish companies, foster sustainable financial improvement and create jobs, and assist us obtain ambitions throughout a spread of priorities from safety and defence to prosperity, and local weather objectives. 

A joint dedication to safety, defence, and stability

Enhancing our partnership is extra necessary than ever given the worldwide challenges we face collectively, together with Russia’s struggle of aggression in opposition to Ukraine, growing cyber and hybrid threats, the growing affect of local weather change and the corresponding want for increased world local weather ambition. Canada and Sweden are dedicated to deepening and broadening our bilateral engagement to deal with these shared challenges, together with by the event of a mutual association on strengthened defence cooperation.

As shut transatlantic companions, NATO Allies and Arctic nations, Canada and Sweden are dedicated to strengthening the transatlantic hyperlink additional. Our joint responses to Russia’s aggression in opposition to Ukraine have demonstrated the significance of transatlantic unity and cooperation. NATO stays the cornerstone of Euro-Atlantic safety and the bedrock of collective defence.

Canada and Sweden’s shared dedication to safety and defence within the Euro-Atlantic space and the shut partnership as NATO Allies gives a possibility for deeper army cooperation between our nations, together with by means of Canada’s position as framework nation for the NATO Multinational Brigade in Latvia. We acknowledge the potential for joint defence procurement, manufacturing, functionality improvement and innovation.

We reaffirm our unwavering help for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. Russia’s struggle of aggression in opposition to Ukraine is a violation of worldwide regulation, together with the Charter of the United Nations. We concur on the necessity to guarantee accountability for Russia’s worldwide crimes, together with by establishing a particular tribunal for the crime of aggression. 

Canada and Sweden help Ukraine’s diplomatic efforts for a simply and lasting peace based mostly on worldwide regulation and the UN Charter. To this finish, Canada and Sweden will proceed to work intently along with our different companions within the Coalition of the Willing to develop safety ensures for Ukraine and to help its defence. Canada and Sweden will even proceed to help Ukraine on its irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration; Ukraine’s future is in NATO. We will proceed our help to Ukraine for so long as it takes, each bilaterally and multilaterally.

Recognizing that Russia will stay probably the most important risk to Euro-Atlantic safety for the foreseeable future, Canada and Sweden will proceed to cooperate intently to constrain and contest Russia’s aggressive actions and counter its capacity to conduct destabilising actions. We underline the significance of limiting Russia’s capacity to wage its struggle of aggression, together with by means of supporting sanctions and measures in opposition to the shadow fleet transporting Russian oil used to bypass sanctions and the G7 oil worth cap.

Canada and Sweden recognise the worth of our likeminded method to arms management, disarmament and non-proliferation and continued cooperation inside the frameworks of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (the Ottawa Convention), the Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament and the Initiative for Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Conflict.

Guided by the core ideas of multilateral cooperation, worldwide regulation together with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), territorial integrity, and the rules-based worldwide order, Canada and Sweden are dedicated to strengthening our collaboration to handle the complicated world challenges within the Arctic and keep the area as safe, peaceable, and affluent. Canada and Sweden each acknowledge the Arctic Council because the pre-eminent discussion board for Arctic governance and cooperation on sustainable improvement and environmental safety within the area, in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and for the advantage of the folks dwelling within the Arctic.

Canada and Sweden recognise that the prosperity and safety of the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific areas are inextricably linked. We will work to bolster partnerships with the Indo-Pacific area, together with by means of the implementation of Canada’s and the EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategies, and Sweden’s defence coverage path for the Indo-Pacific area.

Enabling innovation and competitiveness by means of a strategic give attention to science and expertise

Canada and Sweden are world leaders in science and innovation. We recognise that our capability on this respect is the important thing to fixing the grand challenges of our time and basic for sustainable financial improvement and job creation.

We will construct on the already shut cooperation inside established our bodies such because the European Space Agency, Arctic Council, and others. Canada and Sweden encourage analysis collaboration between increased training establishments and analysis establishments, together with by means of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon Europe. To keep our management in science and innovation we’ll foster analysis excellence, safeguard tutorial freedom and strengthen accountable internationalisation.

By leveraging nearer collaboration in analysis and expertise improvement, Canada and Sweden will proceed to drive innovation whereas additionally supporting the accountable use and commercialisation of rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence, quantum and area applied sciences, next-generation wi-fi networks, together with 5G and 6G, and clear power. This cooperation is predicted to foster strong innovation ecosystems, unlock enterprise alternatives, and help long-term financial development.

Canada and Sweden will improve cooperation in well being, in addition to pandemic and well being emergency preparedness and response, specializing in pharmaceutical coverage, life sciences, provide chain resilience, industrial cooperation, and medical countermeasures. Canada and Sweden will even endeavour to share data and greatest practices in infectious illness monitoring and surveillance, in addition to progress we have now made in the direction of world illness elimination targets.

Firmly dedicated to worldwide improvement, environmental safety, local weather motion, and clear power

Canada and Sweden are dedicated to the implementation of worldwide improvement priorities and delivering accelerated progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, the Paris Agreement, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Global Framework on Chemicals. As members of the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution, Canada and Sweden share the widespread ambition of ending plastic air pollution by 2040.

Canada and Sweden are dedicated to advancing world local weather motion and efforts to restrict temperature rise to 1.5°C as set out within the Paris Agreement. Together, we’ll speed up motion with a view to obtain net-zero emissions. This can be performed in accordance with our respective nationwide targets and consistent with the science, together with by means of cooperation on nuclear energy, nuclear security, and clear applied sciences. In response to shifting geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics, we’ll goal to deepen bilateral cooperation and promote the worldwide adoption of superior applied sciences in areas equivalent to decarbonized metal, crucial minerals, and small modular reactors, thereby supporting a sustainable and resilient future.

Scope of cooperation 

Pillar 1: Economic improvement, competitiveness, commerce and funding 

Within this pillar, Canada and Sweden will deepen our partnership and cooperation within the following coverage areas and matters, together with however not restricted to:

• bilateral commerce, funding, and innovation relations
• financial safety together with crucial minerals, overseas funding screening, and resilient and safe provide chains
• forestry, forest merchandise and forest-based bioeconomy
• worldwide commerce and the multilateral buying and selling system, together with the WTO
• mining and demanding minerals
• modular and prefabricated housing innovation
• expertise attraction, migration and integration

Work inside this pillar can be coordinated by Global Affairs Canada and Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Pillar 2: Security, defence, and resilience 

Within this pillar, Canada and Sweden will deepen our partnership and cooperation within the following coverage areas and matters, together with however not restricted to:

• NATO and the transatlantic hyperlink
• long-term help to Ukraine
• strategic dialogue on safety and defence points
• army and civilian coaching and workout routines, together with multilaterally
• defence industrial co-operation within the land, air, and maritime area, together with crucial underwater infrastructure
• defence materiel cooperation together with info trade, joint check and analysis, trade of personnel, widespread functionality improvement and joint procurement
• defence analysis and improvement, innovation and expertise, together with new rising and disruptive applied sciences, equivalent to exploring superior cyber functionality, quantum expertise and synthetic intelligence
• defence logistics help and safety of provide   
• hybrid threats, cyber defence and cyber safety, disinformation, and the area area
• safe info trade and situational consciousness
• ladies, peace and safety, together with however not restricted to ladies in peace operations
• arms management, disarmament and non-proliferation
• export management on army tools and dual-use objects
• climate-security nexus
• civilian missions and army operations below the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy
• societal resilience, civil preparedness and the Swedish whole defence idea
• democracy help

Work inside this pillar can be coordinated by Global Affairs Canada and Canada’s Department of National Defence, and Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence.

Pillar 3: Arctic cooperation and North-North connections

Within this pillar, Canada and Sweden will deepen our partnership and cooperation within the following coverage areas and matters, together with however not restricted to:

• Arctic Council
• civil security, and safety and defence
• Indigenous tradition and language
• Northern and Indigenous commerce and export
• polar and Arctic analysis
• polar connectivity and infrastructure

Work inside this pillar can be coordinated by Global Affairs Canada and Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Pillar 4: Digital transition, analysis, science, innovation, expertise, well being and life sciences

Within this pillar, Canada and Sweden will deepen our partnership and cooperation within the following coverage areas and matters, together with however not restricted to:

• antimicrobial resistance within the animal sector
• synthetic intelligence
• biomanufacturing and life sciences
• digitalization and connectivity
• well being emergency and pandemic preparedness and life sciences innovation
• infectious illness monitoring and surveillance
• subsequent era wi-fi networks and using safe, resilient and trusted connectivity, together with 5G and 6G
• pharmaceutical coverage
• quantum expertise
• area

Work inside this pillar can be coordinated by Canada’s Department for Industry, Science and Economic Development, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Sweden’s Ministry of Education and Research and Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.

Pillar 5: Climate, atmosphere, and power

Within this pillar, Canada and Sweden will deepen our partnership and cooperation within the following coverage areas and matters, together with however not restricted to:

• local weather motion, together with mitigation, adaptation and finance, and with a give attention to measures and applied sciences to shut the ambition hole and advance implementation of nationwide local weather plans, together with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), consistent with efforts to maintain the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming purpose inside attain
• environmental safety, together with plastic air pollution
• selling the deployment of unpolluted electrical energy and nuclear energy
• pure disasters and danger administration
• nuclear energy and direct and oblique fossil free electrification of the power system, and nuclear security, administration of spent gasoline and radioactive waste

Work inside this pillar can be coordinated by Environment and Climate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada, and Sweden’s Ministry of Climate and Enterprise.

Application and evaluation

This Strategic Partnership will deliver collectively folks, governments, establishments, and companies, and paves the way in which for deepened cooperation between Canada and Sweden. An motion plan can be developed with concrete actions within the pillars and their respective coverage areas and matters set out above. These actions can be specified within the motion plan and will embody, inter alia:

• conferences, roundtables and enterprise fora
• institution of memoranda of understanding, agreements and treaties
• trade and sharing of data and assessments
• trade of experience, experiences and greatest practices
• elevated contacts and visits at political and civil servant ranges, together with authorities businesses
• joint engagement with exterior stakeholders equivalent to companies, academia and analysis institutes, suppose tanks and civil society organizations
• joint political initiatives and formulation of political positions, together with in multilateral organizations, codecs and contexts
• joint initiatives and cooperation platforms
• personnel trade and secondments
• promotion of people-to-people contacts
• common consultations at political and civil servant ranges, together with the institution of dialogue codecs and mechanisms

Global Affairs Canada and Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs will coordinate the appliance of this Strategic Partnership and its motion plan, and evaluation progress throughout the complete vary of coverage areas and matters, in shut session with the respective departments and ministries, and their subordinated authorities businesses. 

Canada and Sweden will evaluation progress of this Strategic Partnership and its motion plan yearly or when in any other case required. 

Amendments of this Strategic Partnership and its motion plan could also be determined by means of common diplomatic channels of communication between Canada and Sweden.

The Participants could amend this Strategic Partnership at any time upon their mutual written consent.

Either Participant could terminate this Strategic Partnership by giving to the opposite Participant ninety (90) days’ written discover of its intent to terminate.

Legal

This Strategic Partnership will not be legally binding below worldwide regulation. 

Signed within the English and French languages, every model being equally legitimate.