Denmark has put forward a proposal for NATO to launch surveillance activities in Greenland, with the island’s backing, Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said on Monday following talks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
"We have proposed it, the secretary general has taken note of that, and I think we can now, we hope, define a framework on how that can be concretized," Poulsen told Danish television.
U.S. President Donald Trump has put the transatlantic alliance to the test with threats to take over Greenland "one way or the other", as European countries close ranks against Washington's designs on the vast Danish autonomous territory.
German and French leaders denounced as "blackmail" weekend threats by Trump to wield new tariffs against countries which oppose his plans for the Arctic island.
Rutte wrote on X that he had discussed "how important the Arctic - including Greenland - is to our collective security" with the Danish minister and Greenland's top diplomat.
