NATO will continue to work with Denmark and Greenland on matters relating to the security of the Arctic region, the military alliance’s Secretary General Mark Rutte said Monday.
His comments follow a meeting with Denmark’s Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen and Greenland’s Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt.
“We discussed how important the Arctic – including Greenland – is to our collective security and how (Denmark) is stepping up investments in key capabilities,” he posted on X. “We’ll continue to work together as allies on these important issues.”
During the meeting, Poulsen said he and Motzfeldt raised the possibility of having a NATO mission in Greenland and the Arctic, according to Reuters news agency.
“We have proposed this. The NATO secretary general has also taken note of this, and I believe we can now hopefully establish a framework for how this can be achieved,” Reuters quoted Poulsen as saying.
