Denmark agreed to a deal with the United States over Greenland because it cannot guarantee the island's security, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.
According to Rubio, the agreement “permanently and completely addresses our national security concerns in Greenland,” Caliber.Az reports via foreign media.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump said the US and Denmark had reached an agreement under which Washington would take responsibility for Greenland's security.
Trump said the United States would immediately increase its military presence on the island.
He also said US adversaries would not be able to establish military bases in Greenland.
In January, following talks between Danish and Greenlandic officials and US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the US, Denmark and Greenland established a “high-level working group to explore if we can find a common way forward”, according to Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. The move came amid continuing disputes over the island’s sovereignty.
Later that month, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, US President Donald Trump said he had reached the “framework of a future deal” on Greenland.
The framework, as well as the agreement outlined on September 18, closely resembles a 1951 agreement between the US and Denmark that provided for a broad US military presence in Greenland.
The US official said that “under the previous status quo, any country, including adversaries, could be allowed to build a military base in Greenland or send troops to Greenland.”
“By contrast, under this agreement, no non-NATO country may build a base in Greenland or maintain a troop presence in Greenland,” the official added.
By Aghakazim Guliyev
