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In an interview with Fox News, US UN Ambassador Mike Waltz criticizes Denmark's efforts in Greenland. He mentions, among other things, a lack of defense, and he also touches on the spiral case and the healthcare system.

Mike Waltz is initially asked whether America's allies can no longer trust the United States due to the crisis surrounding Greenland, which President Donald Trump has claimed ownership of.

Waltz believes that the alliance has been strengthened because of Trump, who has made members promise to spend more money on defense.

He then highlights that Russia is heavily arming itself and has several bases in the Arctic, and that China is increasing its nuclear arsenal:

"All of these missiles will fly over the Arctic if there is an attack on the United States. President Trump is not going to wait for them to be on our doorstep," Mike Waltz told Fox News.

He emphasizes that the United States is about to buy icebreakers from Finland, but that, according to Waltz, Denmark and Canada do not have any "heavy icebreakers".

- The reality is that Denmark is a good ally in many ways, but they have ignored Greenland from a defense standpoint, says Waltz.

The ambassador says that the indigenous population of Greenland has also been ignored, and Waltz mentions the IUD case as a major failure, and he also says that if you get a cancer diagnosis in Greenland it is "almost a death sentence."

Mike Waltz believes that the native population of Alaska is better off economically.

Similar criticism of Denmark from the Trump administration has been repeatedly made by former ambassador to the Kingdom, Carla Sands.

In relation to cancer treatment in Greenland, it is an acquired area within the healthcare system. Denmark has allocated money in the coming years to help Greenland improve its healthcare system.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will give a speech in the EU Parliament on Monday, and here he will address the conflict with the United States, where President Donald Trump has been adamant that the United States should take over Greenland.

Donald Trump announced after a meeting with Mark Rutte last week that an agreement had now been reached on the framework for negotiations on an agreement regarding Greenland.

Subsequently, there was widespread confusion about what had actually been agreed. During his speech in the EU Parliament, Rutte outlined, according to Berlingske, that two central working procedures had been agreed with European leaders and the US in relation to resolving the conflict.

Firstly, there must be a common NATO track on the Arctic, where the alliance must strengthen security in the Arctic and protect the region against Russian and Chinese activities – both militarily and economically.

Secondly, there must be a bilateral track between Denmark, Greenland and the USA:

- This will be anchored directly between the three parties, says Rutte according to Berlingske, and he points to the recent meeting between Danish and Greenlandic representatives and US Vice President J.D. Vance, as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Mark Rutte also maintains that Trump has a point in that the Arctic requires more attention from NATO.

Russia's military is keeping a close eye on the US's development of the Golden Dome missile defense system - including in relation to Greenland.

This was stated by the Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, in an interview with Russian state television, according to the Reuters news agency.

"I have no doubt at all that our military will monitor and analyze these plans closely," he says.

The state-owned Russian news agency Tass writes that in the same interview, Peskov calls Greenland important in terms of "strategic stability and security".

Neither Tass nor Reuters have elaborated on why Peskov believes that Greenland plays a security role and to what extent or for whom.

Golden Dome is US President Donald Trump's plans for a new major air defense.

Trump has previously stated that if the system is to utilize its full potential, it requires Greenland to be involved.

The island's Arctic location is right in the flight path of missiles that China or Russia could send towards the United States.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Chairman of the Greenlandic Government Jens-Frederik Nielsen have visited a kindergarten in Nuuk.

In the pictures you can see them sitting and playing with the children.

They were welcomed by They were welcomed by the mayor of Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq Avaaraq Olsen.

It was primarily press members who had gathered at the airport to follow Mette Frederiksen's landing in Nuuk.

However, there were also a few locals who had come to see the Prime Minister.

One of them was Angunnguaq Berthelsen. He had Erfalasorput with him, and Mette Frederiksen waved to him.

– In these hard times, we must defend our country, that's why I brought Erfalasorput with me, he says.

Normally, around five journalists and photographers participate in Naalakkersuisut's press conferences, typically from Greenlandic media such as Sermitsiaq and KNR.

But on Thursday the situation was completely different when the President of the Greenlandic Government, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, called a press conference for foreign media.

According to the President's Department, there were 96 international media representatives registered for the press conference, which was held in Katuaq.

The interest was so great that there was no room in Naalakkersuisut's usual press conference room, and therefore the event was moved to Katuaq.

The press conference was about Greenland's situation in light of massive pressure from the United States.

The Chairman of the Greenland Government, Jens-Frederik Nielsen (D), will be visited by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Friday.

The Prime Minister's Office thus informs on X that Mette Frederiksen is traveling from Brussels to Nuuk today to meet with Jens-Frederik Nielsen. The Ministry does not provide further details.

The visit comes after a few tense weeks, during which US President Donald Trump has repeatedly reiterated his claim to Greenland.

On Wednesday, the pressure eased when the president denied wanting to use military force to take over Greenland, and at the same time he also took an announced punitive tariff against Denmark and a number of allies off the table.

The Norwegian media NRK reported on Thursday that no less than five prime ministers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland were to have met in Greenland on Friday.

However, the meeting was postponed due to recent developments in the Greenland case.

According to Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M), on Thursday there was the first meeting of a working group between Denmark, the USA and Greenland.

The Foreign Minister says that a "calm process" is now needed on the issue of the relationship between the United States, Denmark and Greenland, and on the working group that has been established between the countries.

He said this after a meeting of the Foreign Policy Committee.

- Without going into details, I can say that there was a meeting in Washington yesterday (Thursday, ed.), where it was reaffirmed that this is what we need to do, and where a plan was also laid out for how we will do it.

- This means that we can get those meetings started quite quickly, says Løkke, adding:

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

Løkke says that the situation between the three countries is now back to the starting point reached a little over a week ago, when Løkke and Greenland's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Motzfeldt, met with US Vice President J.D. Vance and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The parties agreed to establish a working group.

The Inatsisartut Presidency has approved a request from the President of Naalakkersuisut on behalf of the party chairmen to advance the start of the autumn session 2025 part II.

Therefore, an extra meeting day is being called in Inatsisartut on February 2, 2026, where an item entitled "The State of the Kingdom" will be discussed in the hall, writes the chairman of Inatsisartut Kim Kielsen in a press release.

The meeting starts at 11:00, and the President of the Government of Greenland will initially present information on the state of the kingdom.

The party rapporteurs will then each have 10 minutes to make their statements. After the rapporteur's speech, members will have the opportunity to ask questions – with up to three questions per party to the rapporteurs.

The changes to the agenda will be published on Inatsisartut's website.

Prime ministers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland were supposed to meet in Greenland on Friday.

This was stated by the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre, to the Norwegian media NRK and VG.

- In light of the contact between the Kingdom of Denmark, the United States and NATO, the Nordic countries have decided this afternoon to postpone the trip to a later date.

- We are continuously assessing the timing of a visit, says Norway's Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, in a response to NRK.

Prime ministers from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland were to participate in the meeting.

It was not known until Thursday that such a meeting had taken place.

Ritzau is trying to get a comment from the Prime Minister's Office.

There is no final agreement on Greenland, but there is talk, among other things, of "total access" - and US President Donald Trump does not expect to have to pay anything.

This is what the president said on Thursday in an interview with Fox Business, according to the Reuters news agency.

- There are negotiations going on now - the details of it. But basically it's about total access.

"There is no end. There is no time limit," the US president says while in Switzerland at a summit of the World Economic Forum.

It is not immediately clarified what is meant by total access, as the United States already has quite broad limits for its presence in Greenland.

Trump also says he won't pay anything.

It is an agreement called the Greenland Defense Agreement of 1951, which sets the framework for the US presence in Greenland.

The agreement means that the United States, under the auspices of NATO, will assist Denmark in the defense of Greenland.

The United States has the right to free access to all of Greenland, but cannot establish new facilities itself without Denmark's consent.

A petition against misinformation and more clarity about who represents Greenland has collected over 1,200 signatures.

According to the publicly available information about the collection, the signatures must be delivered to the Government of Greenland with a requirement that the Government of Greenland clearly state who can represent Greenland internationally, and that only elected or officially appointed persons can speak on behalf of the country.

The Government of Greenland must also distance itself from anyone who claims to speak on behalf of the country without a mandate.

- Pretending to speak on behalf of a country without a mandate is not a right, it creates uncertainty, distrust and political confusion, writes the organizer behind the petition.

Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen writes in a post on X that the Kingdom will not cede sovereignty over parts of the Kingdom.

The announcement comes after Donald Trump announced on Wednesday evening that the framework for a future agreement on Greenland is in place after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Troels Lund Poulsen further states that the situation has improved, although difficult talks with the Americans await:

- There will certainly be more difficult conversations with the Americans, but following Wednesday's meeting between NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Donald Trump, we are in a clearly better place today than we were yesterday, writes the Minister of Defense.

He says that he has spoken with Mark Rutte on an ongoing basis, and that these conversations "came naturally" after the Minister of Defense and Prime Minister Vivian Motzfeldt had a long meeting with the NATO Secretary General on Monday:

- Here we told Mark Rutte about the Kingdom's red lines, and I think our meeting was very useful for Rutte in understanding the Kingdom's position.

- Therefore, it was absolutely crucial that Vivian Motzfeldt, with whom I have a very good collaboration, participated in that meeting, writes Troels Lund Poulsen.

The Minister of Defense emphasizes again that Rutte cannot negotiate an agreement on behalf of Denmark or Greenland. However, he finds it positive that NATO will do more for security in the Arctic.

Greenlandic member of parliament Aaja Chemnitz (IA) wrote on Facebook on Wednesday evening that NATO cannot negotiate without Greenland:

- NATO in no way has the sole mandate to negotiate anything without us from Greenland. Nothing about us, without us, writes Aaja Chemnitz and continues:

- And that NATO should have anything to say about our country and minerals is completely absurd.

The politician makes the announcement shortly after Donald Trump, following a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, announced that a framework for a future agreement on Greenland has been developed, and at the same time tariffs on Greenland will be abolished.

Aaja Chemnitz believes that negotiations are not possible at all, as the parties are too far apart.

- My feelings are with the population. First and foremost at home in Greenland and then in Denmark and in Europe. Total confusion is being created and it is part of their way of being, writes Aaja Chemnitz.

The purpose of negotiations on security in the Arctic and around Greenland should be to prevent Russia and China from gaining a "foothold" in the area.

This is according to a NATO spokesperson, according to Reuters.

- Negotiations between Denmark, Greenland and the United States will continue with the aim of ensuring that Russia and China never gain a foothold, either economically or militarily, in Greenland.

According to the spokesperson, the NATO allies must cooperate and focus on the framework agreement that US President Donald Trump explained on Wednesday evening.

On his social media account Truth Social, Trump wrote that together with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, a framework has been developed for a future agreement on Greenland.

In addition, the tariff threats from Trump against Denmark and European countries regarding the issue of taking over Greenland are being called off.

It is still unknown what the agreement on Greenland specifically entails.

Mark Rutte subsequently confirms that the parties have made a framework agreement and that more talks will take place between the parties.

He tells CNN.

- His (Trump's, ed.) post on Truth Social is completely spot on, and I completely agree with that, he says, adding that he had "a good meeting" with Trump.

Trump has announced that a framework has been developed for a future agreement on Greenland, and at the same time tariffs regarding Greenland are being lifted.

It is still unknown what the agreement on Greenland will entail in detail. The framework and details will be revealed on an ongoing basis, says Trump.

This week, well-known Trump supporter Jørgen Boassen participated in a celebration of Donald Trump's one-year anniversary as President of the United States.

This is reported by TV2, which also carries a short interview with Boassen.

Boassen is asked, among other things, what he says to people who find it inappropriate that he is attending the celebration despite the current crisis, where Donald Trump is running a strong campaign to have the United States own Greenland:

- We should not seek enemies, we should seek friends, says Boassen.

He still hopes that the United States can help make Greenland independent, despite the president's repeated statements that the United States should own Greenland.

The interview can be viewed here.

Naalakkersuisoq Naaja H. Nathanielsen (IA) took issue with US Congressman Andy Ogles (R) on Tuesday.

This happened in an interview on the BBC program Newsnight.

Here, Andy Ogles assessed that a majority in Greenland would vote for a closer relationship with the United States if a referendum were held:

- If there were a referendum today, the citizens of Greenland would overwhelmingly want independence from Denmark, and they would overwhelmingly want a closer relationship with the United States, was the comment from Andy Ogles.

Naaja H. Nathanielsen then spoke:

- I have to refute that. It was a survey last year that showed great solidarity with the Kingdom.

- Of course we want more self-determination, but we want it within the framework of the Kingdom, and I think that should be respected.

Naaja Nathanielsen further said that for many years, work has been done towards more self-determination on the Greenlandic side in cooperation with Denmark:

- This is a conversation that Greenland and Denmark must have between us, and it should be respected.

Watch the clip from the BBC here.

On Friday this week, the Greenland Minister for Business, Naaja H. Nathanielsen (IA), plans to meet with the board of directors of Greenland Business and the management of the self-governing limited liability companies.

This was announced by the Government of Greenland in a press release.

- The call is being made as a result of the unrest that has arisen in the wake of the US President, Donald Trump, having publicly desired American ownership of Greenland, writes Naalakkersuisut and continues:

- The purpose of the meeting will be to provide an update on the situation and ensure that the Government of Greenland and the parties concerned have a common understanding of the current development and the possible consequences for Greenland of the President's actions.

After the meeting, Director of Greenland Business, Christian Keldsen, and Naalakkersuisoq Naaja H. Nathanielsen will make statements.

According to the Russians, Greenland is not a "natural part of Denmark".

This was emphasized by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

He also points out that Russia is not interested in interfering in Greenlandic affairs.

- Washington knows that Russia has no plans to seize Greenland, the minister said at a press conference, according to the news agency.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has previously said that Russia sees Greenland as Danish territory.