Denmark and a number of other countries, including the US, have agreed on a joint declaration on the Arctic to "build a secure and prosperous region".
The declaration was adopted by a total of eight countries, who met on Friday in connection with a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Sweden, Canada, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland and Norway are also included in the declaration, which is posted on the Swedish government's website.
The countries say they want to "strengthen stability" in the region. They are doing so, among other things, because of "Russia's increased military activity and China's growing strategic interest".
- We are strengthening our military presence, surveillance capabilities and joint training in the Arctic and the High North. We are doing so in a coordinated and calibrated manner, the declaration says.
Among other things, there is agreement on increased dialogue on security challenges, it is said.
According to DR and TV 2, the acting Foreign Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M), says that it was an "important meeting" that the countries had.
- The signal it sends is that security in the Arctic is a common concern. We have been working very hard on that for a long time, he says.
At the same time, he stressed that the group of countries that met on Friday differs from the working group that the United States, Denmark and Greenland have established in the wake of US President Donald Trump's many statements about Greenland.
The Arctic region and Greenland in particular have recently been the subject of increased attention.
On several occasions, Trump has not refused to reject the use of force to gain control of Greenland.
But the US ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, said this week that the Americans will not use force.
- The president has taken the use of force off the table. The future of Greenland is something that the Greenlanders themselves must decide, he said, according to KNR, during the opening of a new US consulate in Nuuk on Thursday evening.
Løkke said ahead of the NATO meeting on Friday that he hoped for a joint statement.
- I am very much looking forward to the meeting. And I hope that we can send a statement from the meeting that shows that all the Arctic NATO countries see the same way about the security situation in and around Greenland and the high north, said the acting foreign minister.
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