NATO should launch operation to boost security in

NATO should launch an operation in the Arctic to address U.S. security concerns, Belgium's defence minister said on Sunday, urging transatlantic unity amid growing European unease about U.S. President Donald ⁠Trump's push to take control of Greenland.



Theo Francken said in a phone interview said, "We have to collaborate, work together and show strength and unity," adding that there is ‍a need for "a NATO operation in the high north".



Trump said last week that the U.S. needs to own Greenland to prevent Russia or China from occupying it in the future.



European officials have been discussing ways to ease U.S. concerns about security around Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Francken suggested NATO's Baltic Sentry and Eastern Sentry operations, which combine forces from different countries ⁠with drones, sensors and other technology to monitor land and sea, as possible models for an "Arctic Sentry".



He acknowledged Greenland's strategic importance but said "I think that we need to sort this ⁠out like friends and allies, like we always do".