US to build two military bases in Greenland under new deal with Denmark

Speaking astatine the signing ceremony, Trump said: "We going to person a tremendous relationship, a unafraid relationship."

"This is tremendous for Europe and for the United States, for everybody, and for Greenland it's going to beryllium incredible."

Meanwhile, Frederiksen described the signing of the woody arsenic a "milestone successful our long-standing co-operation".

"Seventy-five years agone we entered into an statement astir the defence of Greenland. Today, we're signing an adjacent bigger and amended statement - a woody that tin past forever."

The Danish premier curate stressed that the statement "respects sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark, arsenic good arsenic Greenland's close to self-determination".

Jens-Frederik Nielsen said that "for Greenland, it is not lone an statement astir us, it is [an] statement with us.

"It takes into relationship the radical of Greenland, our rights, our livelihoods and the improvement of our country.

"Greenland matters for North American information and for transatlantic security," helium said, adding that the Nato had a cardinal relation to play successful the North Atlantic successful a changing information situation.

The statement besides confirmed Greenland would stay successful Nato if it were to summation independency from Denmark.

The 1951 statement already allowed the US to nonstop arsenic galore troops arsenic it wanted to Greenland. Washington already has much than 100 subject unit permanently stationed astatine its Pituffik base.

Trump had tried for months to acquisition oregon annex Greenland, arguing that it was susceptible to adversaries, including Russia and China.

He argued the Arctic land was an indispensable portion of his program to physique a futuristic "Golden Dome" defence strategy to support the US against rocket attacks.

However the woody lone mentions the task once, and contains nary factual proposal.

The land has immense - and mostly untapped - reserves of uncommon world minerals, galore of which are important for technologies including mobile phones and electrical vehicles.

Trump said past week that the caller woody came with "no outgo to the United States".

A Nato spokesperson said soon afterwards that the subject confederation welcomed the deal, which would "help beforehand security, stableness and practice successful this captious region".