Greenland PM: Don't know details of Trump-NATO deal framework, but sovereignty is a 'red line'

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said successful a property league Thursday helium doesn't cognize what's successful the "framework" woody that President Donald Trump announced aft gathering with NATO's person a time earlier.

But Nielsen stressed that nary woody involving Greenland tin beryllium struck without the land and its governing kingdom of Denmark having a say.

And immoderate specified woody indispensable respect Greenland's "red lines" — including its sovereignty and territorial integrity, helium added.

"We take the Kingdom of Denmark. We take the EU. We take NATO," Nielsen told the property successful Nuuk. "This is not lone a concern for Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark, it's astir the satellite bid for each of us."

The remarks echoed Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's earlier connection maintaining that Greenland's sovereignty is non-negotiable.

Nielsen's comments came 1 time aft Trump — who has spent weeks aggressively pressuring Europe implicit a projected U.S. takeover of Greenland — abruptly announced that helium and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte person forged the "framework of a aboriginal deal."

The announcement, delivered successful a Truth Social station pursuing a closed-door gathering successful Davos, Switzerland, was airy connected details. In a CNBC interview, Trump called it the "concept of a deal" and said helium would "explain it down the line."

But the statement was seemingly capable for Trump to cancel the forthcoming tariffs he had slapped connected 8 European countries that had travel to Greenland's defence amid the president's saber-rattling.

Trump suggested to CNBC that the model involves mineral rights for the U.S., arsenic good arsenic the Trump administration's projected "Golden Dome" rocket defence system.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reported Wednesday that immoderate NATO officials had separately discussed a imaginable compromise successful which the U.S. would get sovereignty implicit "small pockets of Greenland for subject bases."

Nielsen connected Thursday rejected that connection retired of hand, portion repeatedly noting that helium has not been told what the Trump-Rutte model entails.

"I don't cognize what's factual successful that deal," helium said. "But I cognize that we person present a high-level moving radical moving connected a solution for some parties."

"We person immoderate reddish lines" that cannot beryllium crossed, Nielsen said. "We person to respect our territorial integrity. We person to respect planetary law, sovereignty."

"Our integrity and our borders and planetary instrumentality is definitely, decidedly a reddish enactment that we don't privation anyone to cross," helium added aboriginal successful the presser. "And I don't deliberation that is unusual astatine all."

Nielsen said that helium believes those reddish lines, which were precocious relayed to Rutte from Danish and Greenlandic officials, person since "been delivered" to Trump.

But there's been "nothing astir a woody connected mineral resources oregon thing else," helium said.

Greenland is consenting to negociate with the U.S. connected economics and different matters, "but that's thing we person to speech astir successful communal respect," helium added.

Nielsen besides straight criticized the Trump administration's aggression toward Greenland, including the caller flare-up successful tensions that, until Wednesday, included the possibility of U.S. subject action.

"No doubt, the rhetoric we person heard the past twelvemonth is unacceptable for us," helium said, adding that it is hard to support a respectful dialog erstwhile his citizens "every nighttime perceive threats astir acquiring and taking."

"Try to ideate however it is arsenic Greenlanders, arsenic radical here, peaceful radical successful Greenland, perceive and spot successful the media each time that idiosyncratic wants to instrumentality your freedom."