“That's not how you talk to allies.” Danish Foreign Minister reacted to US statements on Greenland

Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen indicated that the current agreement “offers a wide opportunity for the US to have a much stronger military presence.” The Danish government urged the United States on Saturday to renegotiate the terms of its cooperation in Greenland, without needing to modify the mutual defence agreement signed in 1951, which continues to offer “wide scope for manoeuvre,” according to Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. …

Denmark is open to discussing with the United States an increase in the military presence on the island, the Minister stressed