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Canada and Denmark deepen defense ties
Canada and Denmark have signed a defense cooperation agreement on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
The agreement follows the Trump Administration's threats to take over Canada and was signed by Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty and Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, together with his Greenlandic and Faroese counterparts, Vivian Motzfeldt and Sirið Stenberg.
"Canada is an Arctic nation — and we will defend the North," McGuinty said in a statement after signing the agreement.
The Danish Ministry of Defense reports that the agreement will strengthen defense cooperation between the two countries in a number og areas, including defense innovation, technology, capacity building, and training, exercise and education.
Arctic basic training programme in Greenland increases
The Danish Ministry of Defense and the Greenlandic government have decided to increase the admission to the Arctic basic training in Greenland from 30 to 50 students starting in the summer of 2026.
"The educational program will provide young people in Greenland with broad basic training which can strengthen the collective Greenlandic preparedness," said Major General Søren Andersen, Chief of the Joint Arctic Command, when the education programme was launched in 2023.
The increase in the number of students is to meet the great interest in the education programme among young Greenlanders, writes the Danish Armed Forces. In 2024, the new education program received 200 applications.
US Senator Murkowski to Greenland
US Senator for Alaska, Lisa Murkowski (R), is to visit Nuuk, Greenland next week.
That is reported by several media outlets.
Greenlandic parliament member Aaja Chemnitz (IA) has told DR that the visit is to happen on February 6.
Earlier this month, Murkowski visited Copenhagen, Denmark, with several other US lawmakers in midst of US President Trump's continued remarks about the need for control over Greenland.
"It pleases me that my long-standing cooperation with Senator Murkowski can create a framework for dialogue at this time," said Chemnitz in a post on Facebook.
Chemnitz statet that the meeting with the lawmakers in Copenhagen was a result of her dialogue with Senator Murkowski.