We share some common security concerns,’ Canadian prime minister says.

The leaders of five Nordic countries — plus Canada — have gathered in Oslo for a mini-summit to discuss strengthening defence capabilities in the face of higher international tensions, including recent threats by the Trump administration to take over Greenland.

The meeting Sunday is the last stop in Norway for Prime Minister Mark Carney, who arrived early Friday to witness a major NATO military exercise in the northern part of the country involving more than 30,000 troops, sailors and aircrew.

“We sometimes call Canada an honorary Nordic” country, said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who added that when he told the prime ministers of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland that Carney would be in Oslo this weekend, they all jumped at the chance to talk collective security with him.

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The report lays out five stark scenarios of potential moves that Russian President Vladimir Putin could make against the Nordic and Baltic countries, if Moscow ever achieves a victory in its long-running war to subjugate Ukraine.

Three of the five scenarios involve Russian forces seizing key islands off Norway, Finland and Sweden in so-called low risk operations in order to test NATO’s resolve.

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