“Stability”. NATO welcomes US agreement with Denmark and Greenland

O the agreement was concluded by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and its spokesman told the British Sky News that it will be important for “a vital region”.

On the other hand, the chairman of the military committee of the Atlantic Alliance, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, considers this compromise to be an agreement and, as such, is welcome, since NATO “has many activities underway” in the region, from a military point of view, said at a press conference cited by Europe Press.

Denmark and Greenland confirmed on Friday night an agreement with the United States on security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic, which is due to be signed next week, at the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York.

“ I welcome 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.

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”.

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

Trump has repeatedly threatened to take control of Greenland last year, not even excluding the use of force, creating 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.