The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said in an interview with CNBC that the “outline” agreement reached with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) over Greenland involves access to mineral rights for the USA and its European allies, in addition to cooperation in the project known as the Golden Dome. According to him, this understanding, still preliminary, would be valid “forever”.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said that both European allies and the US “will be involved in the Golden Dome and the mineral rights” of the island.
The Republican did not detail the legal or operational structure of the agreement and described the concept as “complex”, reiterating only that it is a “draft” negotiated with NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte.
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Earlier, in a speech at the Forum itself, Trump had ruled out the use of military force to take Greenland and defended the opening of immediate negotiations on the status of the territory, which is autonomous but belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark.
Shortly afterwards, he announced that he had reached an understanding with NATO and backed off the threat to impose tariffs on Denmark and other European countries from February 1, which had been used as leverage in the dispute.
