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U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte attend the plenary session at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. (Alex Brandon\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen declared at a NATO summit on Wednesday that her country would defend its territory as President Donald Trump revived his longtime demand for control of Greenland.<\/p>

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Earlier this year, Trump sharply raised tensions with allies and seemed to push NATO to a breaking point<\/a> with his threats to seize Greenland, the vast Arctic expanse that is an autonomous territory of Denmark.<\/p>\n

Allies stood up to the president<\/a> and Trump backed down<\/a>, saying at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that he had reached the framework of a deal brokered by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n

But almost as soon as he arrived to meet NATO counterparts in Turkey, Trump restarted the fight, telling reporters that Greenland \u201cshould be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump added that European refusal to accept this is \u201cwhat hurt my relationship with NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, sitting alongside Rutte, Trump dispelled hopes that this was an offhand remark and said he planned to use the NATO meeting to \u201crelay my problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGreenland is a big problem for us,\u201d he added. \u201cGreenland is very important for the U.S. but it\u2019s not important for Denmark.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leaders in Denmark and Greenland staunchly opposed Trump\u2019s demands. Frederiksen in recent months has said that she didn\u2019t believe the ordeal was truly over, after Rutte\u2019s proposal to assuage Trump by increasing the NATO and U.S. military presence in the Arctic.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s comments in the Turkish capital took aback some European officials who had expected him to use the summit of NATO\u2019s 32 nations<\/a> to focus instead on his grievances about their criticism of his war with Iran war or about military spending by European nations.<\/p>\n

Frederiksen, arriving at the summit on Wednesday, said the \u201cU.S. position is unfortunately very clear on this topic and our position is as clear as it has been all through: Greenland is of course not for sale.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a sovereign state,\u201d she told reporters, \u201cand we need everybody to respect our territorial integrity.\u201d<\/p>

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, left, and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, right, welcome Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. (Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Asked if Denmark would defend its territory from friend or foe alike, Frederiksen said, \u201cOf course we will defend the kingdom of Denmark.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Danish leader also reiterated that NATO was meant to ensure allies help defend each other from outside threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons we built NATO many many years ago is if anything happens to one of us then everybody should stand up,\u201d she said, referring to the alliance\u2019s collective defense pledge. \u201cI mean, Article 5, is our insurance \u2026 and the same goes for Greenland if anything happens in our direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some European officials say Trump\u2019s public skepticism about defending U.S. allies has spurred a reckoning over Article 5,<\/a> the mutual defense clause in NATO\u2019s founding treaty, which says that an attack against one should be considered an attack on all.<\/p>\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte meet on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. (Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Sitting next to Trump on Wednesday, Rutte again sought to de-escalate, reminding the president that the two had \u201cmade a deal\u201d on Greenland, and insisting that he would \u201cmake sure that deal is step-by-step being implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NATO chief has maintained that there is a \u201cgood process in place\u201d in negotiations between U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials.<\/p>\n

Technical talks began this year after Rutte defused the crisis but officials say that so far they have yielded few concrete results.<\/p>\n

Previous talks have broached increasing the presence of U.S. troops or bases in Greenland, offering the U.S. greater access to investment in mineral extraction and boosting military operations in the Arctic, including for a multilayered air defense system called Golden Dome.<\/p>\n

NATO officials also pledged to boost the alliance\u2019s footprint in the Arctic to address Trump\u2019s grievances that the vast icy territory is not well-secured, and remains vulnerable to Russia and China.<\/p>

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Natalie Allison contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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