JAKARTA - The Deputy Chairman of the Greenland Parliament, Bentiaraq Ottosen, said he supported the idea of opening a NATO office on the island.
"Our Prime Minister [Jens-Frederik Nielsen] said that NATO considers it necessary to place an [NATO] office in Greenland, and that is very good, in my opinion," Ottosen said, quoted by Sputnik, Friday, January 30.
The opening of the NATO office is likely related to the increasing strategic significance of the Arctic region in terms of geopolitics as well as Russia's and China's growing interest in the region, said the deputy speaker of parliament.
He added that the melting of ice in the region had opened new shipping lanes so that security issues in the region were becoming increasingly urgent.
NATO, according to Ottosen, must take more responsibility for Arctic defense, and Greenland is ready to cooperate with the alliance in this regard.
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