'Things are changing,' Icelandic Foreign Minister, Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, told Newsweek.
Braced against cutting winds slicing through the Keflavík air base, one of the U.K.'s most advanced stealth fighter jets sits on the tarmac, having just arrived in Iceland.Huddled meters away from the British Royal Air Force F-35B aircraft, Iceland's foreign minister does not hesitate to agree that the Arctic, just north of the Nordic country, is a vitally important area.
The F-35Bs' presence in Keflavík 'is a really practical demonstration of the unity of NATO,' said RAF Group 11's commander, Air Vice-Marshal Tom Burke.'We have a real interest in ensuring very much that it remains this area of high cooperation and low tension,' Dr. Bryony Mathew, the British Ambassador to Iceland, told Newsweek.
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