US Denmark Greenland set to sign new security pact

The United States, Denmark and Greenland are scheduled to formally sign a new Greenland security agreement on Tuesday at a trilateral ceremony on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, according to a White House official. President Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen are set to meet for the signing. The pact expands on a 1951 defense agreement under which the United States has held extensive military rights in Greenland for decades. Administration officials said the new agreement goes further by allowing Washington to establish additional military installations without separate Danish or Greenlandic approval, explicitly barring non-NATO countries from establishing military bases or maintaining troops on the island, and creating a mechanism to block adversarial investment in sensitive sectors such as telecommunications infrastructure, undersea cables, ports and critical minerals. The agreement stops short of the territorial acquisition Trump had sought for much of the year, when he repeatedly argued that U.S.