JD Vance on Greenland negotiations: If we're going to pay a lot of money for Arctic security, it's reasonable to get benefits from it

While in Armenia, US Vice President JD Vance was asked about the status of negotiations with Greenland and said that the talks will take place “in the next few months”, insisting that the US should “obtain certain benefits” for investments in Arctic security, reports News.ro quoting The Guardian.

But he repeated his implicit criticism of Denmark, saying “some of our allies have underinvested in Arctic security” and asserted that if the U.S. is to step up efforts and invest money in the region, it should “get some benefits out of it.”

He also suggested that it could take some time to agree on a solution.

“Well, negotiations with Greenland are still very early on. I know we've been working on this quite a bit over the last few weeks, but it's very simple. Greenland is very important to the national security of the United States of America. I think some of our allies have invested too little in Arctic security. And if we're going to invest in Arctic security, if we're going to pay a lot of money and be responsible for protecting this huge land mass, I think it's reasonable that the United States should get some benefits from that, and that will be the focus of the negotiations here for the next few months,” said JD Vance.

Greenland's foreign minister, Vivian Motzfeldt, said on Saturday that while it is positive that talks with the US are underway, they are not yet where Greenland wants them to be and it is too early to predict where they will lead. “We are not where we want to be yet. It will be a long way, so it is too early to say where we will end up,” Motzfeldt told a conference in Nuuk, alongside his Danish and Canadian counterparts.