Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will on Friday hold talks with her Greenlandic counterpart after a turbulent week that saw US President Donald Trump back down from his threats to seize the Arctic island and agree to talks.

Denmark's prime minister said she won't negotiate her nation's sovereignty after President Donald Trump said a "framework" on a Greenland deal was reached.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visited Greenland on Friday for talks with the island's leader Jens-Frederik Nielsen after US President Donald Trump backed down from threats to seize the territory,

Denmark’s prime minister is saying after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he agreed a “framework of a future deal” on Arctic security with the head of NATO that her country can’t negotiate on its sovereignty and she has been “informed that this has not been the case.

The prime minister says the "hard yards" of bolstering Arctic security can begin after the US president's shift.

Leaders of Denmark and Greenland insisted Thursday that the island's sovereignty was nonnegotiable after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had agreed with the NATO chief on the framework of a future Arctic security deal that Trump said would grant the U.

Former NATO Secretary General and former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned Donald Trump that an attempt to conquer the Danish territory of Greenland would be the end of the Western alliance,

Nielsen criticized Trump's aggression toward Greenland, saying the rhetoric is "unacceptable."

Donald Trump backed down from his threats on Greenland because the UK stood up for the Danish territory's sovereignty, David Lammy has told the BBC. The deputy prime minster told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking that the US president had "responded to our concerns" in dropping threats to use force or trade sanctions to take control of the island.