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Denmark, US Reach Defense Agreement

by Reuters

   Denmark has reached a defense agreement with the United States that
   will allow U.S. soldiers and military equipment to be based on Danish
   soil, the country's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday.

   The 10-year agreement was announced after the United States signed
   similar agreements with Finland and Sweden this month.

   "This means that American soldiers and equipment can be permanently
   stationed on Danish soil," Frederiksen told reporters at a news
   conference.

   The agreement, which Denmark and the United States began negotiating in
   February last year, will be signed later this week and will enter into
   force when necessary legislation has been adopted about a year from
   now, Frederiksen said.

   Finland on Monday signed a defense cooperation agreement with the
   United States to grant the U.S. military broad access across the Nordic
   country to the vicinity of its long border with Russia.

   Sweden signed a similar agreement earlier in December, and Norway,
   which also shares a short border with Russia, in 2021 signed an
   agreement with the United States on how to regulate U.S. military
   activity on its soil.