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Trump says us denmark greenland entered into agreement on us control over security
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In Short: US President Donald Trump and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced a security agreement for Greenland, granting the US permanent control over the territory's security during next week’s United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.
According to Trump, the deal gives the US permanent control over Greenland’s security and “all other needs”, at no cost to the US. The agreement bars US adversaries from establishing a military presence or making “sensitive investments” in Greenland without US approval.
The deal also means that non-NATO states won’t be able to set up bases in Greenland and will be barred from “making investments in Greenland that could threaten the United States”.
Trump called the deal an “Infinite Life” Agreement, meaning “it never ends”. The agreement would remain in force even if Greenland were to become an independent state in the future.
The State Department official said the agreement gives the US the right to build more military sites on the island without Greenland or Denmark approving. Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said the deal “recognises Greenland’s interests” and is “to the benefit of us all”.
Denmark’s Frederiksen said the agreement is “great for NATO and Europe”, as it “strengthens our common security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic Area”. She added that the agreement “recognises the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom and the Greenlandic people’s right to self-determination”.
The announcement comes more than a year after the US president threatened to seize the self-governing Arctic territory, which is part of Denmark. Copenhagen has stressed that it retains sovereignty over Greenland, and this deal will still need to be ratified in the Danish and Greenland parliaments.
Trump said the US will “immediately” begin building up a large military presence on Greenland.
The official text of the agreement has yet to be released, and the deal does not specify the exact terms or conditions of the security arrangement.
Background
US President Donald Trump announced a deal with Denmark and Greenland granting Washington permanent control over Greenland's security.
The US and Denmark have reached a security agreement for Greenland, granting the US permanent control over the territory's security.
Denmark is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean.
What's confirmed
- But according to Trump, the deal gives the US permanent control over Greenland’s security and “all other needs”, at no cost to the US.
- They said the agreement would be announced next week.
- Denmark’s Frederiksen said the agreement “recognises the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom and the Greenlandic people’s right to self-determination”.
What's still developing
- According to Denmark, the deal is expected to be signed during next week’s United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.
- A January 2025 poll found that 85 percent of Greenlanders opposed becoming part of the US.
- New agreement with Denmark falls short of Trump’s previously stated goal of US ‘ownership’ of the island.
- Those threats roiled the NATO security alliance that Washington and Copenhagen are part of.
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- The US and Denmark have announced a deal on Greenland's security, resolving a diplomatic dispute sparked by President Donald Trump's threats to seize it by force.
- The leaders of Denmark and Greenland welcomed the deal to "strengthen security", which they said was expected to be signed next week, but did not outline its contents.
- The deal comes after months of threats by Trump to "take" Greenland over national security concerns, citing its strategic location for defence purposes and its mineral wealth. No text of the agreement has been released. Trump said the deal came with "no cost to the United States" and would grant it the ability "to do what is necessary" to "secure and defend the security of Greenland", in a post on Truth Social.
- A Nato spokesperson said the military alliance welcomed the deal, which would "help advance security, stability and cooperation in this vital region".
- The agreement would still need to go through "the necessary parliamentary procedures to enter into force" once signed, the statement noted.
- "Don't tell Trump that it's the Kingdom of Denmark that has won," read one headline in the newspaper Berlingske on Saturday.
- "Trump didn't get Greenland, but he was allowed to take a victory lap on social media," wrote a US correspondent for Politiken.