"Denmark has reached a defence cooperation agreement with the United States that will allow US soldiers and military equipment to be deployed on Danish territory," the country's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, TVP World reports.
The ten-year agreement was announced after the US signed similar agreements with Finland and Sweden this month.
"This means that American soldiers and equipment can be permanently stationed on Danish soil," Frederiksen said.
"The agreement, which Denmark and the US started negotiating last February, will be signed later this week and will come into force when the necessary legislation is passed in about a year," the Danish prime minister added.
Helsinki signed a defence cooperation agreement with Washington that gives the US military wide access through the Nordic country near its long border with Russia.
Sweden signed a similar agreement earlier in December, and Norway, which also shares a short border with Russia, signed an agreement with the United States in 2021 on how to regulate U.S. military activity on its territory. /BGNES
