{"id":322470,"date":"2026-01-19T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322470"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:00:12","slug":"danish-foreign-minister-to-visit-nato-allies-over-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322470","title":{"rendered":"Danish foreign minister to visit NATO allies over Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2026\/01\/18\/image-352340-1768742375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"241\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>COPENHAGEN, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Denmark&#8217;s foreign minister is to visit\u00a0fellow NATO members Norway, the UK and Sweden to discuss the alliance&#8217;s\u00a0Arctic security strategy, his ministry announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lars Lokke Rasmussen first visit Oslo on Sunday, travel to\u00a0London on Monday and then to Stockholm on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The diplomatic tour follows US President Donald Trump&#8217;s threat to punish\u00a0eight countries &#8212; including the three Rasmussen is visiting &#8212; with tariffs\u00a0over their opposition to his plan to seize control of Greenland, an\u00a0autonomous Danish territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has accused Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the\u00a0Netherlands and Finland of playing a &#8220;very dangerous game&#8221; after they sent a\u00a0few dozen troops to the island as part of a military drill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In an unstable and unpredictable world, Denmark needs close friends and\u00a0allies,&#8221; Rasmussen stated in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our countries share the view that we all agree on the need to strengthen\u00a0NATO&#8217;s role in the Arctic, and I look forward to discussing how to achieve\u00a0this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An extraordinary meeting of EU ambassadors has been called in Brussels for\u00a0Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denmark, &#8220;in cooperation with several European allies&#8221;, recently joined a\u00a0declaration on Greenland stating that the mineral-rich island is part of NATO\u00a0and that its security is a &#8220;shared responsibility&#8221; of alliance members, the\u00a0<br>ministry statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since his return to the White House for a second term, Trump has made no\u00a0secret of his desire to annex Greenland, defending the strategy as necessary\u00a0for national security and to ward off supposed Russian and Chinese advances\u00a0<br>in the Arctic. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Denmark&#8217;s foreign minister is to visit\u00a0fellow NATO members Norway, the UK and Sweden to discuss the alliance&#8217;s\u00a0Arctic security strategy, his ministry announced. Lars Lokke Rasmussen first visit Oslo on Sunday, travel to\u00a0London on Monday and then to Stockholm on Thursday. The diplomatic tour follows US President Donald Trump&#8217;s threat to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":322471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322472,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322470\/revisions\/322472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/322471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}