Denmark and Greenland have proposed deploying a North Atlantic Alliance mission to the island. NATO has announced cooperation on collective security.

This was stated by Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on January 19, quoted by  TV2 , reports  Censor.NET .

Offer

Poulsen noted that in a meeting with Rutte, he and the Greenlandic Foreign Minister proposed the idea of ​​a NATO mission in Greenland. 

“Mark Rutte listened to us carefully. In my opinion, it is good that the discussion is taking place in a negotiating room, and not in a public space,” the minister noted.

NATO’s reaction

In a post on Platform X, Rutte noted that the parties discussed “the importance of the Arctic, including Greenland, for our collective security.” He added that NATO would continue to cooperate with Denmark and Greenland on security issues in the Arctic region. Джерело: https://censor.net/ua/n3596211

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