“This agreement provides for high-level discussions to see whether we can address American concerns without crossing our red lines,” Lokke Rasmussen said.
“We will never negotiate by giving up fundamental principles. We are living in 2026, in an international order based on law, state sovereignty, and the right of peoples to self-determination, an order the United States itself helped build after World War II,” the minister said.
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Denmark’s Armed Forces also on Wednesday said it was continuing to deploy troops to Greenland.
“For the first time, the Jaeger Corps’ Arctic specialists have been deployed to Greenland’s toughest terrain along the Blosseville Coast,” Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command said in a post to social media.
The purpose of the deployment was, among other things, an “increased presence in the Arctic”, it added.
Danish broadcaster DR also reported that the frigate Peter Willemoes had arrived in Greenland to join Arctic Endurance, a Danish military exercise that brings together personnel from several European countries and began last week.
A few days after Trump announced that the United States would get Greenland “one way or the other”, eight European countries sent several dozen troops to the island, officially to prepare for the staging of Arctic Endurance.
Some have since departed, including a small group of roughly 15 Germans and some Swedes, while others continue to arrive.
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