PM Nielsen faces the US interest on his island head-on.
Danish caretaker Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has lost the chance of negotiating a new coalition, after she led her Social Democrat party to the worst election result in its history.
Her ally, Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, is now left to negotiate with the United States on the thorny issue of the designs by President Donald J. Trump over the Arctic island that is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.
Today (12), Nielsen said that increasing the US military presence in the Arctic territory is part of ongoing secret negotiations with Washington.
Washington and Copenhagen have been holding closely guarded talks on opening three new American military bases in southern Greenland. The installations would be designated U.S. sovereign territory and focus on tracking Russian and Chinese naval movements through the GIUK Gap.…
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Washington is conducting closed-door negotiations with Denmark on expanding its military presence in Greenland.
According to the BBC, three new bases are planned to be placed in the south of the island to monitor Russian and Chinese activity in the North Atlantic.pic.twitter.com/H12MNkrF7u
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“From the beginning, one of the issues has been that they don’t think we do enough in terms of national security and surveillance in our region, so security and more military presence in Greenland is part of the discussions,” Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen told reporters in Copenhagen.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
