Foreign relations of Denmark

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U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen hold a joint press conference outside Marienborg, July 2005.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen hold a joint press conference, April 2010.
The foreign policy of Denmark is based on its identity as a sovereign state in Europe, the Arctic and the North Atlantic.
As such its primary foreign policy focus is on its relations with other nations as a sovereign state compromising the three constituent countries: Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Denmark has long had good relations with other nations.
It has been involved in coordinating Western assistance to the Baltic states （Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania）.
The country is a strong supporter of international peacekeeping.
Danish forces were heavily engaged in the former Yugoslavia in the UN Protection Force （UNPROFOR）, with IFOR, and now SFOR. Denmark also strongly supported American
operations in Afghanistan and has contributed both monetarily and materially to the ISAF. These initiatives are a part of the "active foreign policy" of Denmark.
Instead of the traditional adaptative foreign policy of The unity of the Realm, Kingdom of Denmark is today pursuing an active foreign policy, where human rights, democracy and other crucial values is to be defended actively.
In recent years, Greenland and the Faroe Islands have been guaranteed a say in foreign policy issues, such as fishing, whaling and geopolitical concerns.
Following World War II, Denmark ended its two-hundred-year-long policy of neutrality.
Denmark has been a member of NATO since its founding in 1949, and membership in NATO remains highly popular.
There were several serious confrontations between the U.S. and Denmark on security policy in the so-called "footnote era" （1982–88）, when
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