Overview
- Greenland’s prime minister said Tuesday the working group has made progress but no agreement exists, as the White House confirmed high-level talks.
- The U.S. is seeking access to three sites in southern Greenland to watch the Greenland–Iceland–UK sea corridor known as the GIUK Gap, a plan General Gregory Guillot outlined in March.
- Candidate locations include former U.S. facilities at Narsarsuaq and Kangerlussuaq, and a U.S. envoy recently inspected Narsarsuaq’s runway and harbor.
- One BBC-sourced report says Washington floated designating the new sites as U.S. sovereign territory, which has not been accepted and remains politically fraught under existing agreements.
- Talks run under the 1951 U.S.–Denmark defense pact with State Department official Michael Needham leading, while Greenland says cooperation is possible but its sovereignty is not negotiable.