The US president announced that there was a “structure for a future agreement” on Greenland, after meeting with Mark Rutte in Davos
The North American president, , stated that the United States will have sovereignty over the land where the North American military base in Greenland is located, based on the agreement pre-established this week with NATO, in Davos, Switzerland.
In an interview published today in the newspaper, Trump responded affirmatively when asked whether the United States would control the land where future US military bases will be installed in Greenland, which depends on Denmark.
“We will have everything we want. We are having interesting conversations”, said the North American president, without providing further details regarding the pre-agreement announced on Wednesday after the meeting between Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, within the scope of the Davos World Economic Forum.
The United States maintains a military base in northern Greenland under a broad defense agreement signed in 1951 between Copenhagen and Washington, and updated in 2004.
On Wednesday, Trump withdrew his threat to forcibly annex Greenland and to increase customs tariffs on some European countries for opposing the proposed acquisition of the Danish territory.
Trump cited national security concerns in the face of Russian and Chinese threats for wanting the Arctic island, an autonomous region of Denmark, which also has large reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals.
Later, the North American president announced that there was a “structure for a future agreement” on Greenland, after meeting with Mark Rutte in Davos.
Donald Trump said, in an interview with the North American television channel FoxBusiness, that the United States will have “all the military access” it wants, to that autonomous territory of one of the member states of the European Union (EU) and NATO.
“We can put whatever we need in Greenland because we want to,” Trump said, adding: “Essentially, it’s full access, there’s no end, there’s no time limit.”
Little is known about the pre-agreement discussed with Mark Rutte, but sources cited this week by The New York Times say that it will be similar to the status of British military bases in Cyprus, which remain under UK sovereignty since the island’s independence in the Mediterranean Sea in 1960.
The United States has reduced its military presence from 17 bases in Greenland in 1945 to a single base with about 150 elements and more than 300 personnel today, many of whom are Danish or Greenlandic citizens.
