Denmark and Greenland are seeking a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after US President Donald Trump’s administration reaffirmed its intention to take control of the strategic Arctic island, a Danish territory.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart, Vivian Motzfeldt, requested the meeting with Rubio “in the near future,” according to a statement posted Tuesday on the Greenland government website. Previous requests for a meeting were unsuccessful, the statement said.
Tensions between the parties rose after the White House said “the US military is always an option” even as a series of European leaders rejected Trump’s renewed calls for the US to take control of Greenland, citing strategic reasons.
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned earlier this week that a US takeover would mean the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military alliance.
The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom joined her in a statement Tuesday reaffirming that the mineral-rich island “belongs to its people.” The text defended the sovereignty of Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark and, therefore, part of NATO. Source: Associated Press.
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