Løkke: A calm process is
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Løkke: A calm process is now needed regarding Greenland

A "calm process" is needed in the relationship between the US, Denmark and Greenland, says Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

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A meeting was held in Washington on Thursday, where they agreed on a plan for how the parties should move forward, Løkke said on Friday.

This means that we will get the meetings started quite quickly, he said.

We will not communicate when those meetings will be, because we want to take the drama out of this. Now we need a calm process.

According to Løkke, the situation between the three parties is back to how it was just over a week ago, when Løkke and Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt met with US Vice President JD Vance and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. At that time, the parties agreed to establish a working group.

Løkke did not reveal anything about who was present at the meeting in Washington on Thursday.

Before Trump backed down on his military threat on Wednesday, the Danish military was ready to fight in Greenland if the US attacked, DR reports on Friday. The information comes from political sources and the several-page order that the Danish soldiers received.

The order describes a multi-phased effort, which would include the possibility of sending even more soldiers and military capacity later.

DR has also received information that there was broad political support for combat if the US were to attack.

On Friday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will travel to Greenland to meet with Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

She and NATO chief Mark Rutte agree that NATO should invest more in deterrence and defense in the Arctic, Rutte writes on X.

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