NATO’s chief said a breakthrough over Greenland was secured without discussing the territory’s sovereignty with President Donald Trump, focusing rather on the broader issue of security in the Arctic region.
The discussion centered on regional security in a “practical sense” — and how to prevent Russia and China from accessing the semi-autonomous Danish territory, Secretary General Mark Rutte told Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“When it comes to the protection of the Arctic, with a priority on Greenland, we have to spend more energy, more time, more focus on this because we know the sea lanes are opening up,” Rutte said. An American military presence was also not discussed, he said, though Denmark is “completely open” to an increased US footprint.
Rutte says Trump Greenland plan involved no sovereignty talk