Overview
- Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met for about 50 minutes with Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Vivian Motzfeldt, and the sides left with a stated "agreement to disagree."
- Rasmussen said the parties will set up a high-level working group on Greenland’s security, while reiterating that threats to Denmark’s territorial integrity are "totally unacceptable."
- Denmark announced an expanded military presence and exercises in and around Greenland with NATO allies, and local media reported an advance team and a Danish military aircraft arriving in Nuuk to prepare for larger deployments.
- Sweden and Norway said they are sending personnel to support planning for exercises in Greenland, and European governments signaled broader allied involvement to strengthen Arctic security.
- France confirmed it will open a consulate in Greenland on February 6, and U.S. lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation to bar funding for any unilateral annexation of a NATO ally’s territory without that ally’s consent.