Ice to be here: Rio boss jokes about Greenland move

Ice to be here: Rio boss jokes about Greenland move

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is visiting Brussels, assured his Danish counterpart on Thursday that ties between the two countries are strong, amid rising tensions over Greenland.

Donald Trump has continued with his plans to take control of Greenland. However, when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen met, the issue was not a fixed talking point. “It would have required that I had my Greenlandic colleague with me,” Lars Løkke Rasmussen told TV2.

The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has travelled to Brussels in the midst of one of the most tense contexts between the European Union and the United States. At NATO headquarters, Rubio has taken the opportunity to meet briefly with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, at a time when the Trump administration is increasingly showing a more aggressive tone with regard to the annexation of Greenland—the autonomous island for which t…

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the national broadcaster that he raised the issue of American claims to Greenland during a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday in Brussels. "I took the opportunity to clarify a few things," Rasmussen said.

"I made it clear to US Secretary of State Mark Rubio today that Denmark will reject any claims to Greenland," Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lökke Rasmussen said during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.