The Letter of Intent signed this week by Norway’s Bjørn Arild Gram and Denmark’s Troels Lund Poulsen includes a stronger bilateral cooperation on education and training, drones and air defence.
“It will contribute to enhanced Norwegian, Nordic and allied security,” Gram says in a statement.
He highlights the importance of cooperation in the North.
“It is especially important for Norway to cooperate more closely with Denmark on our areas of responsibility in the North Atlantic and Arctic,” Gram underlines.
“These are areas of strategic interest for both NATO and Russia,” he explains.
The two neighbouring Nordic countries have many of the same kind of military hardware, including Leopard-2 tanks, F-35 fighter jets and SEAHAWK helicopters, something that facilitates joint training and activities. Oslo and Copenhagen now also intend to cooperate about air defence and surveillance. Both countries are in the process of acquiring more air defence systems. Läs artikel