COPENHAGEN: Denmark’s prime minister insisted that her nation can’t negotiate on its sovereignty on Thursday (Jan 22) after US President Donald Trump mentioned he agreed on a “framework of a future deal” on Arctic safety with the top of NATO, and mentioned she has been “knowledgeable that this has not been the case”.
Trump on Wednesday abruptly scrapped the tariffs he had threatened to impose on eight European nations to press for US management over Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark. It was a dramatic reversal shortly after he insisted he needed to get the island “together with proper, title and possession”.
He mentioned “extra discussions” on Greenland had been being held regarding the Golden Dome missile defence program, a multilayered, US$175 billion system that for the primary time will put US weapons in house. Trump supplied few particulars, saying they had been nonetheless being labored out.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen mentioned in an announcement on Thursday that safety within the Arctic is a matter for all of NATO, and it’s “good and pure” that or not it’s mentioned between the US president and NATO Secretary Normal Mark Rutte. She mentioned that she had spoken with Rutte “on an ongoing foundation”, together with earlier than and after he met Trump in Davos.
She wrote that NATO is totally conscious of the dominion of Denmark’s place that something political may be negotiated on, together with safety, funding and financial points – “however we can’t negotiate on our sovereignty”.
“I’ve been knowledgeable that this has not been the case,” she mentioned, including that solely Denmark and Greenland could make choices on points regarding Denmark and Greenland.
Frederiksen mentioned that Denmark needs to proceed participating in constructive dialogue with allies on easy methods to strengthen safety within the Arctic, together with the US Golden Dome program, “supplied that that is executed with respect for our territorial integrity”.
Requested in an interview with Fox Information whether or not Greenland would stay a part of the dominion of Denmark below the framework deal Trump introduced, Rutte replied that “that situation didn’t come up any extra in my conversations tonight with the president”.
“He’s very a lot targeted on what do we have to do to be sure that that massive Arctic area, the place change is going down in the intervening time, the place the Chinese language and Russians are increasingly energetic, how we will defend it,” he mentioned. “That was actually the main focus of our discussions.”
