Denmark confirms US signature on Greenland at UN

“ Si would add the prospect of a good deal for Greenland, the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States,” said Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in a statement following an announcement by President Donald Trump.

The agreement “strengthens our common security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic and is therefore beneficial to NATO and Europe,” said Frederiksen.

Copenhagen reported that the signing is scheduled for next week, in the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York.

In turn, Greenland’s head of government, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, welcomed the agreement “which guarantees and strengthens the security of Greenland, the Kingdom of Denmark, the United States and the Western Alliance”.

Trump announced today an agreement that gives Washington 'permanent control over Greenland', also banning in this Danish territory any military presence or sensitive investments from 'adversary' countries.

“The United States of America has signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland that gives the United States permanent control over security — and all other needs — in Greenland, taking full account of ALL our many concerns,” Trump said on the Truth Social platform.

'In addition, from now on, no US adversary can in any case have a military base or presence in Greenland, nor make sensitive investments in the territory without our express written approval', he said, without the Danish authorities having spoken on the matter.

Trump threatened several times last year to take control of Greenland, not even excluding the use of force, generating alarm in Denmark and among NATO allies.

Following a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Davos in January announced that he had “formed the structure” of a future Greenland agreement and withdrew the tariff threat previously made to countries supporting Denmark in the dispute.

A 1951 defence agreement under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and which is formally in force, governs the US military presence in Greenland, including ways to expand it.

Denmark has sovereign jurisdiction over Greenland, but the United States has exclusive jurisdiction over its own military facilities in the territory, where the Pituffik Space Base operates, which supports missile alert, missile defense and space surveillance.

The defence pact, last updated in 2004, already allows Washington to increase the deployment of troops on the island, provided that the authorities of Denmark and Greenland are informed in advance.

In today's publication, Trump states that Washington "will immediately initiate the process of developing a great military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland", where "there are many suitable areas", working with the people of Greenland "in its development and construction".

A head of the State Department stated anonymously that the agreement guarantees that China and Russia “cannot install military bases” or send troops to Greenland, establishing “mechanisms to prevent any investment in sensitive sectors.”.

The agreement, said the same person, gives “explicitly to the United States full capacity to act in Greenland as they deem necessary to ensure the security and defence of the American continent” and allows the number of U.S. bases to increase in the territory “as needed”.