Decades-long 'whisky war' ends as Canada and Denmark agree land border

Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod, center, and Canada's Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly, right, trade gifts of liquor after the signing of an agreement that will establish a land border between Canada and the Kingdom of Denmark on Hans Island, an arctic island between Nunavut and Greenland, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, in Ottawa. – Photo: AP

Denmark and Canada have resolved a conflict lasting almost 50 years by establishing a land border on the disputed Hans Island.

Over the last half century, the disagreement over the island in the far north between Canada and Greenland occupied 26 Canadian foreign ministers, Ottawa's top diplomat Melanie Joly said Tuesday at a ceremony in the Canadian capital with Danish counterpart Jeppe Kofod and Greenland's Prime Minister Mute B Egede.