Greenland and Denmark say Trump set on ‘conquering’ territory after meeting
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Danish Foreign Minister Rasmussen says meeting with Trump administration ‘didn’t manage to change’ US position.
The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland have travelled to Washington, DC, to meet with members of President Donald Trump’s administration in the United States.
But on Wednesday, officials emerged having made little progress in dissuading Trump from seeking to take over Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory.
“We didn’t manage to change the American position,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters after the meeting. “It’s clear that the president has this wish of conquering over Greenland.”
Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt had hoped that their sit-down with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance would alleviate mounting tensions over the fate of Greenland.
But the meeting failed to address key disagreements. Instead, the officials declared their intent to establish a working group to continue to address concerns about control over Greenland and security in the Arctic region.
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