Danish Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen and Greenland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Motzfeldt will meet with Secretary General Mark Rutte at NATO Headquarters at 4 p.m. this afternoon.
However, NATO wants to keep what is being discussed under wraps - no formal press conference is planned.
Afterwards, Sweden's Pål Jonson (M) and other Nordic defense ministers will join for a meeting with their Danish counterpart at 5:30 p.m. Other Nordics, however, are not expected to meet Rutte, according to the defense minister's press secretary.
“Will do more”
According to the Reuters news agency, Lund Poulsen and Motzfeldt will also meet with EU Foreign Affairs Chief Kaja Kallas in Brussels during the day.
In a press release ahead of the meeting, Lund Poulsen writes that there is "broad support for NATO to do more in the Arctic."
"The situation requires that we strengthen cooperation on defense and security around the Arctic broadly within the NATO circle. I look forward to discussing the way forward with the NATO Secretary General and my Nordic colleagues in Brussels," Motzfeldt writes in the press release.
Soldiers on the road
In parallel, a larger number of Danish soldiers will be sent to Kangerlussuaq in Greenland this evening, the Danish Defense Ministry told Danish TV2.
Exactly how many soldiers this involves is unclear, but it is described as a "significant contribution".
Denmark's Chief of Defense, Major General Peter Boysen, is also accompanying the trip.
