Intensive Danish ministerial efforts were made in both London and Brussels on Monday.
Among them, Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen and Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
One topic was a possible future NATO operation around the island.
"We have discussed that and also proposed it. I believe that we can find a framework for how it can be done," Lund Poulsen said at a press conference with Danish journalists afterwards.
"We emphasized that we are doing more in the Arctic and emphasized the importance of NATO having a greater focus on security in the northernmost Nordic region and the Arctic in general," the Minister of Defense said.
Can Sweden contribute?
After the meeting with Rutte, Lund Poulsen and Motzfeldt also held a meeting with the defense ministers of Sweden, Norway and Iceland.
Pål Jonson (M) said that Sweden is ready to participate in a Greenland operation.
"What is happening right now is that there is a reconnaissance mission underway in which Sweden is also participating with a limited number of officers. Then we will see if there are conditions for this to become a purely NATO mission. But Sweden is ready to contribute and we play a constructive role in these contexts," Jonson said at a short press conference afterwards.
However, exactly what the intervention will or can do is still unclear.
"It is, of course, about creating the conditions for NATO to be able to take greater responsibility in the high Nordic region and also be able to conduct deterrence and defense. We are looking at this now and then we will identify what the needs are," Jonson said.
Løkke in London
At the same time, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen was in London to meet with his British colleague Yvette Cooper.
"What we know for sure is that if we don't respond strongly, we are sending a signal of weakness. There are some special rules of the game in the world that you can't shake," Løkke said at a press conference afterwards, according to the Danish public service company DR.
A larger number of Danish soldiers are also on their way 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".
