NATO spokesperson Allison Hart says NATO welcomes the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland agreement
Allison HartNATO Spokesperson and Director of the Office of Strategic Communications, in a statement given to news media
In a statement given to news media on 19 September 2026, NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said NATO welcomes the announcement that the United States, Denmark and Greenland will soon sign an agreement, and that the agreement will help advance security, stability and cooperation in the Arctic and North Atlantic region. The quoted statement does not mention the agreement's terms.
“We welcome the announcement that an agreement will soon be signed by the United States, Denmark, and Greenland. The Arctic and the North Atlantic are essential for our collective security, and this agreement will help advance security, stability, and cooperation in this vital region.”
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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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CNBC first published the article on 18 September 2026 at 5:34 PM EDT and modified it at 06:36 EDT on 19 September, when this statement was added; the date above is that updated version, not the first publication date. CNBC names Hart and prints the statement in two quoted runs split by the attribution 'NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said in a statement'; the record joins the first two sentences and restores the period at the join. The statement has a third sentence (NATO continuing to do its part on Arctic security) that the record omits. We could not find a first-party NATO copy: the nato.int newsroom and the @NATO and @NATOpress X timelines carried none, so the statement appears to have been supplied to reporters.
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First published 22:09 UTC on 18 September, modified 11:36 UTC on 19 September. Corroborates that a NATO spokesperson issued the statement. It gives no day and does not name the spokesperson.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Before the quotation
President Trump announced the agreement on Truth Social on the evening of 18 September 2026, and the Danish Prime Minister's Office said in a press release that the three governments expect to sign it at the UN General Assembly the following week. The BBC reported that the text of the agreement had not been released.
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CNBC and the BBC reported the statement on 19 September; in those reports the text of the agreement had still not been released.
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Why this label?
Hart welcomes the announced agreement and says it will help advance security, stability and cooperation in the region, which approves the deal itself; she neither repeats nor addresses Trump's description or any term of the agreement. The closest competing label is “Mixed or conditional”, because she welcomes an agreement that is announced but not yet signed or published. That loses because the statement attaches no condition, reservation or tension to the welcome.
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The Dispute Index. "NATO spokesperson Allison Hart says NATO welcomes the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland agreement". First published: 2026-09-19. Last updated: 2026-09-22. https://disputeindex.com/events/1199-in-a-statement-given-to-news-media-on