Denmark has decided to join
NATO's missile defence system, local
media reported Friday.
Denmark will contribute at least
one frigate to NATO's missile
defense shield, the country's Foreign
Minister Martin Lidegaard said after a
meeting of the Foreign Affairs
Committee on Thursday afternoon.
"We will offer that one and
more of our frigates can be
outfitted with a radar that can
be part of the missile defence.
There was wide support for that
(in the Foreign Affairs Committee),"
Lidegaard was cited as saying by
Denmark's newspaper Berlingske
Tidende.
Denmark's Defense Minister Nikolai
Wammen emphasized that the decision to
join the missile defence system is
not an action aimed at Russia.
"It is to protect the Danes
against rogues states, terrorist
organisations and others that have the
capacity to fire missiles at Europe
and the US," he said.
According to Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten, it will cost some
400-500 million Danish kroner (71-89
million U.S. dollars) to equip
Danish frigates with advanced radar
equipment.
At the meeting, the Foreign
Affairs Committee also decided that
Denmark will send weapons and a
contingent of troops to Iraq to
fight the extremist Islamic State.
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