After touching down in Paris last night, Prime Minister Mark Carney is set for a full day of high-level talks with his French, British, German and Italian counterparts, as well as other members of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ that “will accelerate efforts toward a negotiated peace for Ukraine, supported by strong security guarantees,” according to the advisory issued by his office last week.

Before joining his fellow leaders behind closed doors, Carney was booked in for a chat with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, as well as a tête-à-tête with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen.

Over the weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump “renewed his calls for an American takeover of Greenland, a Danish territory, which he calls a matter of national security,” Canadian Press notes.

“The Arctic island also has vast stores of critical minerals the U.S. needs.”

For her part, Frederiksen “said Trump has ‘no right to annex’ the territory, and reminded (him)that Denmark already provides the United States, a fellow member of NATO, broad access to Greenland through existing security agreements.”

The one-day summit — which, as per Politico, is also expected to include an appearance by U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been playing a lead role in Trump’s ongoing efforts to end the conflict, as well as Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner —  comes just one day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed that he has asked former Team Carney front bencher Chrystia Freeland to serve as an advisor on economic development — a move that “was met with criticism from an ethics watchdog, the Conservatives and even those in the Liberal camp,” iPolitics reported yesterday afternoon.

A few hours after the news broke, Freeland served notice that she would be resigning her seat “in the coming weeks.”

As per his itinerary, Carney will also meet with his Finnish counterpart, Alexander Stubbs, before heading back to Ottawa tonight.

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