Andy Burnham has congratulated Denmark and the United States on a deal to \u201cstrengthen security in the Arctic\u201d after the two countries reached an agreement over Greenland.<\/p>\n
The prime minister and his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen \u201cwelcomed the US\u2019 commitment to the region\u201d in a call on Sunday morning, Downing Street said.<\/p>\n
In a readout, a No 10 spokesperson said: \u201cThe two leaders began by discussing their upcoming visits to New York for the UN General Assembly (UNGA). The Prime Minister said he would use the trip to drive forward work on issues that matter to people at home, including reducing the cost of living through greater global stability and delivering security for people through closer international partnerships\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTurning to defence and security, the two leaders discussed the forthcoming signing of a new deal to strengthen security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic area between the US, Greenland and Denmark this week,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham has congratulated Denmark and the United States on a deal to \u201cstrengthen security in the Arctic\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5328,64,74210,281349,5330,42,100110,134091,24932,1886,43,239419,1009,2396,40,38,41,39,1594,29557,1032],"class_list":["post-622566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arctic","tag-denmark","tag-downing-street","tag-euro-atlantic","tag-greenland","tag-headlines","tag-high-north","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-nato","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-north-atlantic","tag-president-trump","tag-prime-minister","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ukraine","tag-un-general-assembly","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}