Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen said she does not believe the Greenland crisis has been resolved, even though US President Donald Trump has dropped his earlier demand that the US take control of Greenland from Denmark, the British newspaper Financial Times (FT) reports.
"We will try to see if we can find a solution... but I don't think it's over," Fredriksen said in an interview during the Munich Security Conference.
Trump backed down from his most extreme demands regarding the Arctic island last month, after meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
A working group involving Danish, Greenlandic and US officials is discussing a possible compromise, which would include renegotiating the 1951 agreement that regulates the deployment of US troops in Greenland.
"We now have a more traditional political diplomatic path. We understand that for the US there are domestic defense issues when it comes to Greenland. That has always been the case and we will discuss that," said Frederiksen, who is scheduled to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Munich.
She added that Denmark would not cross the "border" in terms of sovereignty.
The Greenland crisis has accelerated efforts by European capitals to rely less on the US for defense, out of fear that Trump is abandoning long-standing US security guarantees to Europe.
"We need a sense of emergency in Europe," said Frederiksen, one of the biggest supporters of transatlantic cooperation among European countries.
She added that Europe must view things through the prism of an emergency situation in terms of deterrence and defense if it wants to survive in a global order where strength is important above all else.
"A Europe that is not able and willing to protect itself will die at some point. The old world will not return. I am quite sure of that. Unfortunately, strength is one of the weapons that is useful in this new world disorder and therefore Europe must be strong enough," said the Danish Prime Minister.
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