Denmark’s Prime Minister’s Office says there are no further comments on the expected Greenland agreement
Prime Minister’s Office of DenmarkDenmark’s Prime Minister’s Office (Statsministeriet), in a press release issued jointly with the Government of Greenland’s Chairman’s Department
A joint press release issued on 18 September 2026 by Denmark’s Prime Minister’s Office and Greenland’s Chairman’s Department announced that Greenland, Denmark and the United States expected to sign a security agreement the following week, quoted statements from Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Mette Frederiksen, and ended with the sentence “There are no further comments at this time.” The release does not mention President Trump’s description of the agreement.
“There are no further comments at this time.”
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Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
On September 18, 2026, President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that he said gives the United States “permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland.” Danish and Greenlandic officials initially described an expected agreement and emphasized sovereignty and self-determination. On September 22, the White House published an agreement text dated that day. It reaffirms Denmark’s sovereignty and Greenland’s right to self-determination; provides for U.S. defense areas and access under stated procedures; bars non-NATO states from establishing military installations unless the parties agree otherwise; and has no end date. The text says it enters into force only after diplomatic notice of necessary parliamentary procedures. The dispute remains over how Trump’s “permanent control” description compares with the document’s terms.
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Official English version of the joint press release, dated 9/18/2026, on the Prime Minister’s Office’s English site. The Danish original, “Det vil ikke være muligt at få yderligere kommentarer på nuværende tidspunkt”, reads literally “It will not be possible to obtain further comments at this time”; it is a standard closing formula, not an answer to a question. The release does not mention President Trump.
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Danish original of the same release, dated 18.09.2026. The release closes by listing the Government of Greenland’s communications department and the Prime Minister’s Office press line as contacts for further information.
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The Government of Greenland’s own publication of the same release, sent by the Chairman’s Department (Formandens Departement), with the Danish text followed by an English block. Both the Danish and the English closing sentences match the Prime Minister’s Office pages exactly. Last updated September 18, 2026, 22:39:52 UTC. Together with KNR’s description of a “fælles pressemeddelelse” from Formandens Departement and Statsministeriet, it shows the release was issued jointly.
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Entry in TV 2’s long-running live blog “Kampen om Grønlands fremtid”; the blog’s URL date (2025-01-06) is its start date, and this entry’s own timestamp comes from the page’s structured data. It reports the release’s closing line as the Prime Minister’s Office closing its statement. Translation (ours): “It is not possible to get further comments at this time, the Prime Minister’s Office concludes.”
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KNR explainer published Saturday 19 September 2026 at 12:06 Nuuk time (13:06 UTC; 9:06 AM EDT). It states that Trump announced the agreement on Truth Social on Friday evening and that shortly afterwards Formandens Departement and Statsministeriet confirmed the expected signing in a joint press release, and it says the agreement text has not been published. Translation of the excerpt (ours): “The agreement has not yet been published, and we have therefore not seen what it entails.”
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On the evening of 18 September 2026 President Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States had entered an agreement with Denmark and Greenland, describing it as giving the United States permanent control over security in Greenland. The Prime Minister’s Office and Greenland’s Chairman’s Department then published the joint release confirming that the three governments expected to sign an agreement the following week.
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The release said the three governments were expected to sign the agreement at the UN General Assembly the following week, after which it would enter into force subject to the necessary national parliamentary procedures. As of 19 September the agreement text had not been published, according to KNR.
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The joint release announces the expected signing and closes with “There are no further comments at this time,” which closes further discussion of the agreement, including Trump’s description, at that point; it neither adopts nor disputes that description. The closest competing label is “Mixed or conditional”, because the same release carries welcomes from Nielsen and Frederiksen and a parliamentary-approval condition. That loses for this entry because the welcomes belong to those two leaders and are recorded as their own events, while the office’s own closing words are only a closure of further comment.
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The Dispute Index. "Denmark’s Prime Minister’s Office says there are no further comments on the expected Greenland agreement". First published: 2026-09-19. Last updated: 2026-09-22. https://disputeindex.com/events/1198-a-joint-press-release-issued-on-18-september