00:00After initially insisting that the U.S. needed Greenland for national security reasons,
00:05U.S. President Donald Trump in January backed down from his threat to seize the island
00:10after saying he had struck a framework deal with NATO that secured total and permanent U.S. access to Greenland.
00:17With details of the agreement unclear, attention focused on what form this access might take.
00:23International media reports suggested that the president might be considering military bases in Greenland
00:29similar to the U.K.'s sovereign base areas, or SBAs, in Cyprus, which have existed for over 65 years.
00:38On August 16, 1960, Cyprus gained independence from the United Kingdom.
00:43In the Treaty of Establishment of the Republic of Cyprus,
00:46two areas of the island were excluded from the sovereignty of the new state
00:50and remained under full British control.
00:52Well, according to the 1st of the European Union, the Great Britain has carried out the authority of the NISU,
01:06the whole of the NISU, the new state of the NISU, the new state of the NISU,
01:11with two, however, experiences.
01:13that is, before the Deckelia and the Deckelia.
01:17These two regions are coming to an increase of 99.4 million
01:25and they are compared to the 3% of the Cypriot population.
01:43According to the Appendix O in the Symposium,
02:01the Great Britain states that the bases will be used only for strategic purposes
02:09and have very important, very important, rites,
02:15such as, for example, that these regions
02:19will not be used to be able to build
02:23or bio-mechanical duties.
02:25They will not be used to be used to be able to build
02:30electric vehicles or rivers.
02:32They will not be used to be able to build
02:35the European Union and the European Union.
02:38Therefore, from this, it can be believed that
02:42the responsibility of the Bretagne
02:45on the specific basis is not absolute
02:48and it is in a very strong requirements
02:52and they should be used clearly and only for strategic purposes.
02:57Today, approximately 18.000 people live in the SBAs.
03:01Around 11.000 of them are Cypriot citizens.
03:05The remainder are British military personnel and their families.
03:09The absence of physical borders and the alignment of the legislation
03:12within the British bases with that of the Republic of Cyprus
03:15limit objections to their presence on the island.
03:18Any protests against the SBAs that have taken place
03:21relate to the military activities of the bases,
03:24which are not under the control of the Republic of Cyprus.
03:27More than 60 years after Cyprus gained independence from the UK,
03:31the sovereign base areas remain an example of a shared strategy
03:35shaped by a strict legal framework and political compromise.
03:39Whether such a model could be applied in Greenland appears debatable,
03:43since Denmark has insisted that its sovereignty over Greenland
03:46is not up for discussion
03:48and the island's Prime Minister, Jens Frederik Nielsen,
03:51has said that sovereignty is a red line.
03:54In 2009.
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