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Expects working group on Greenland to be completed this year
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M) expects that there will be a solution before the end of the year, as a result of negotiations between the Danish-Greenlandic-American working group, which have been ongoing since January.
This is reported by the Danish newspaper Politiken, cited in, among other things, the Greenlandic Sermitsiaq.
Løkke Rasmussen estimates that there is a need for "a number of meetings", he tells Politiken.
Denmark, Greenland and the United States agreed in January to establish a working group to discuss the way forward.
Relations between Denmark and Greenland on the one hand, and the United States on the other, have been tense after US President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to take over Greenland.
Cyber attacks against Greenlandic websites
There are currently cyber attacks, so-called DDoS attacks, against Greenlandic websites.
That is confirmed by the Danish Resilience Agency to Ritzau, Greenlandic KNR reports.
"We are following the situation closely and are in ongoing dialogue with relevant authorities in Denmark and Greenland about the current attacks," the agency writes in a written comment.
DDoS attacks involves attempts to overload websites or networks so that they do not work and cannot be accessed.
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.
Denmark provides F-35 fighter jets to NATO s Arctic Sentry
NATO has launched the mission to strengthen its presence in the Arctic, part of an effort to defuse tensions within the alliance prompted by the U.S. president's push to acquire Greenland from Denmark.
"Our F-35 contribution strengthens the overall presence in the region and underscores Denmark's role as an active ally in the Arctic and North Atlantic," Denmarks minister of defense, Trouls Lund Poulsen said in a statement.
Poulsen also expects the United States to contribute to the NATO mission, he told reporters ahead of the Munich Security Conference.