Denmark’s Prime Minister’s Office says there are no further comments on the expected Greenland agreement
Denmark’s Prime Minister’s Office (Statsministeriet), in a press release issued jointly with the Government of Greenland’s Chairman’s Department
“There are no further comments at this time.”
Source and context
Official statement
About this source
Official English version of the joint press release, dated 9/18/2026, on the Prime Minister’s Office’s English site. Fetched directly on 2026-09-19 (HTTP 200); the sentence matched the page text exactly. 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.
Official statement
About this source
Danish original of the same release, dated 18.09.2026 (the older URL without “/2026/” redirects here with HTTP 301). Fetched on 2026-09-19; the Danish sentence matched exactly. 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.
Official statement
About this source
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. Fetched on 2026-09-19; both the Danish and the English closing sentences match the Prime Minister’s Office pages exactly. Page metadata gives og:updated_time 2026-09-18T22:39:52Z. Together with KNR’s description of a “fælles pressemeddelelse” from Formandens Departement and Statsministeriet, it shows the release was issued jointly.
Reporting
About this source
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 (DI's): “It is not possible to get further comments at this time, the Prime Minister’s Office concludes.”
Reporting
About this source
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 (DI's): “The agreement has not yet been published, and we have therefore not seen what it entails.”
Before the quotation
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.
After the quotation
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.
How this statement is classified
Case context: Trump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
The label describes this statement’s response within the context above.
Why this label?
The case’s fixed reference point is President Trump’s description of the unsigned, unpublished agreement as giving the United States permanent control over security and all other needs in Greenland. 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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