COPENHAGEN: Negotiations with the United States on Greenland aimed at increasing security in the Arctic are expected to start soon, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Friday. &ldquo;We will get those meetings started fairly quickly. We will not communicate when those meetings are, because what is needed now is to take the drama out of this,&rdquo; Lokke told reporters in Copenhagen, adding that the talks would focus on &ldquo;security, security and security.&rdquo; Upcoming meeting in Nuuk Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will also travel to Greenland&rsquo;s capital, Nuuk, on Friday for talks with her counterpart there, following Donald Trump&rsquo;s climbdown from his threats to seize the Arctic island. Frederiksen wrote on X that she would travel to Nuuk from Brussels, where she held talks early Friday with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who reached a purported deal with Trump in Davos this week about Greenland, the details of which remain scant.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen (L) and Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen addresses journalists at a doorstep after a meeting of the Foreign Policy Committee at Christiansborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, on January 23, 2026.

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Says security-focused talks with the United States will soon begin, as Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen travels to Greenland's capital Nuuk to meet counterpart. 

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Negotiations with US on Greenland to start 'fairly quickly': Danish FM