US EditionRubio says he will meet with Denmark about Greenland next week
Marco Rubio will discuss U.S. intentions amid Danish and Greenlandic concerns over sovereignty and NATO, following Trump's renewed interest in acquiring Greenland.
- On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he will meet his Danish counterpart next week in Washington, D.C., to discuss the crisis over Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark.
- Following escalating remarks from the administration, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Danish Foreign Minister, and Vivian Motzfeldt, Greenland's foreign minister, requested talks to clear misunderstandings after renewed U.S. interest and Trump saying, `US military is always an option`.
- French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Rubio had `ruled out the possibility of an invasion` in a phone call, while Rubio told reporters that `every president always retains the option`.
- European leaders rallied behind Denmark, saying Greenland `belongs to its people` and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned earlier this week that a U.S. takeover would end NATO.
- Denmark has realized in recent weeks that quiet persuasion failed, prompting crisis diplomacy and talks as the U.S. administration stresses Greenland’s strategic importance against China and Russia.
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The White House insisted this Wednesday that diplomacy is the first option for U.S. President Donald Trump to take control of Greenland’s Danish autonomous territory, although without discarding other scenarios such as military action, and announced a meeting next week with representatives of Denmark to discuss the issue. “For President Trump, all options are always on the table while assessing what is best in the interests of the U.S., but I wa…
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Rubio to meet Danish authorities next week
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday he plans to meet with Danish officials next week after the Trump administration doubled down on its intention to take over Greenland, the strategic Arctic island that is a self-governing territory of…
On Monday, one of the US president's most influential advisors floated the idea that Greenland could be the next target for the US military.
US President Donald Trump is allegedly thinking "intensively" about buying the island of Greenland. Next week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to have talks with the Danish government.
A group of European countries, led by Germany, France and Poland, is working on a response plan to U.S. President Donald Trump, if he persists in his harassment of Greenland, an obsession with seizing the Arctic island that comes from far away but has skyrocketed since the armed intervention in Venezuela.Continue reading...
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