NATO Formally Welcomes US-Denmark-Greenland Deal as Trump Repeats 'Permanent Security Control' Claim

A NATO spokesperson said on September 20, 2026 that the alliance 'welcomed' the US-Denmark-Greenland security agreement, saying it would 'help advance security, stability and cooperation in this vital region' — the alliance's first institutional statement on the deal since Trump's September 18 announcement. President Trump again described the pact as giving Washington 'permanent control over security, and all other needs' in Greenland at 'no cost to the United States,' including a unilateral US right to build military facilities and veto power over Russian or Chinese investment on the island. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen again described the deal as strengthening shared security while declining to endorse Trump's 'permanent control' framing; a Greenland opposition lawmaker who reviewed the draft text said 'I feel reassured and am not worried.' The full agreement remained unpublished and pending Danish parliamentary approval ahead of the planned signing at the UN General Assembly in New York the following week.