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- I think our Swedish colleague
had a question over here,

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but let me say after that, though,

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that I think I'm gonna prioritize NGOs.

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We diplomats are here at this event,

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and we get a lot of time
to speak with each other,

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and to ask questions of each other,

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and to have dialogue and engagement

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of varying degrees of constructiveness.

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So I'd like to turn to
you to ask a question,

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we'll try to handle that,

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but then I'd love to sort of give priority

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to those of you who are from the

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Think Tank, the Academic, the
NGO, the Civil Society worlds.

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Because that is also a
part of the outreach that I

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think we need to do a lot more of.

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And I wanna make sure that
we are doing what we can

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here today, as I keep saying,

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to model how to do this kind of engagement

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as best we can.

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Please, sir.

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- [Man] Okay thank you very much.

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It's gonna be short.

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This is a comment rather than a question.

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I just want to thank you for organizing

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and regardless whether
you like or not like

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the Posture Review I wanna
thank you for organizing

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this event because it's
an act of transparency.

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And my point, basically,
is that from a Swedish side

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we would like to encourage
other nuclear weapon states

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to organize similar open
discussion on their doctrines

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and postures.

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I think that would be extremely valuable

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both for transparency and
has confidence building.

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So that's my only point, thank you.

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- I have nothing to add to that,

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thank you for your comment.