丹麦首相周一（9月14日）表示，在美国威胁要接管该领土后，丹麦、美国和格陵兰之间启动的讨论能够解决这一争端，她对此感到“乐观”。

美国总统唐纳德·特朗普今年早些时候坚称，出于国家安全原因，华盛顿需要控制格陵兰——丹麦的一个自治领地——尽管他最终排除了以武力吞并它的可能性。

一个“高级别工作组”于1月成立，汇集了来自丹麦、美国和格陵兰的代表，以处理美国的关切，但自成立以来，有关谈判的信息鲜有披露。

“这个工作组仍在运作，因此现在下任何结论都为时过早，但我相当乐观地认为我们能找到办法，”丹麦首相梅特·弗雷泽里克森在芬兰北部举行的一场北极安全峰会上说。"As long as the working group is still working, there are no conclusions, but my hope is, of course, that we will find a way forward peacefully," Frederiksen told reporters in Rovaniemi. The United States wants to open three new military bases in southern Greenland, according to several media outlets, in addition to the Pituffik base it already has in the north of the territory. A 1951 defence pact, updated in 2004, already allows Washington to ramp up troop deployments and military installations on the island provided it informs Denmark and Greenland in advance. At the height of the crisis, Trump would not rule out using force to seize the territory of 57,000 inhabitants, sowing anxiety within the EU and NATO. Since then, tensions have cooled somewhat, and in an apparent move to assuage Trump, NATO launched a new mission to bolster security in the Arctic.“当我成为丹麦首相时，北极地区在欧盟的议程上并不真正占据位置，在北约也是如此，”弗雷德里克森说。

“现在，就在我们说话之际，我们有10个盟国正在格陵兰举行联合演习。”