Denmark says NATO shares responsibility for Arctic security under Greenland deal
Denmark and Greenland say the pact would strengthen Arctic security and still needs parliamentary approval before taking effect.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump declared the United States secured "permanent control" over Greenland's security, but Denmark and Greenland offered a sharply different account of the proposed agreement.
- Denmark and Greenland officials said they merely "expect" to sign an agreement next week strengthening security in the Arctic and North Atlantic without transferring the island.
- Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen emphasized the pact respects "the Kingdom's sovereignty and territorial integrity" and "Greenland's interests," a distinction missing from Trump's announcement.
- Canadian journalist Annie Dufour called it "a tale of two deals," noting that Trump "jumped the gun" by declaring the agreement a done deal before finalization.
- Expected to be signed next week, the agreement must undergo "the necessary parliamentary procedures" before taking effect, which will reveal which description of the security pact is correct.
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There has been mostly silence – an unusual silence in the age of tweets – this weekend in European capitals. At midnight on Friday, Donald Trump made a surprising announcement with a major impact on Europe: the White House had reached an agreement with Denmark to assume the security of Greenland indefinitely. The headline is bold, decisive, unexpected. Copenhagen and Nuuk confirmed an agreement to "improve security in the Arctic and North Atlant…
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