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(The Guardian) Greenland is an autonomous part of Denmark, and the Danish foreign minister said they would be open to discussing security concerns over the island with Donald Trump’s administration, but downplayed the possibility of it becoming part of the United States. Here’s more, from the Guardian’s Patrick Wintour, Kim Willsher and Miranda Bryant: Denmark has said it is open to dialogue with Donald Trump about his legitimate security concerns after the incoming US president said he was prepared to use economic tariffs or military force to seize control of Danish-administered Greenland.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the experienced Danish foreign minister, insisted he did not see a political crisis, but said it was in everyone’s interests to lower the temperature in the discussions.
“We are open to a dialogue with the Americans on how we can possibly cooperate even more closely than we do to ensure that the American ambitions are fulfilled.”
He added: “I have my own issues with Donald Trump and I also know that you shouldn’t say everything you think out loud.”
But he played down the possibility that Greenland would ever become part of the US: “We fully recognise that Greenland has its own ambitions. If they materialise, Greenland will become independent, though hardly with an ambition to become a federal state in the United States.”
At the same time he praised the French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, who told France Inter radio: “There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be, attack its sovereign borders.”
Barrot added that, while he did not believe the US “would invade” Greenland, “we have entered an era that is seeing the return of the law of the strongest”.
-Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...st-threatening-eu-sovereign-borders-greenland
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the experienced Danish foreign minister, insisted he did not see a political crisis, but said it was in everyone’s interests to lower the temperature in the discussions.
“We are open to a dialogue with the Americans on how we can possibly cooperate even more closely than we do to ensure that the American ambitions are fulfilled.”
He added: “I have my own issues with Donald Trump and I also know that you shouldn’t say everything you think out loud.”
But he played down the possibility that Greenland would ever become part of the US: “We fully recognise that Greenland has its own ambitions. If they materialise, Greenland will become independent, though hardly with an ambition to become a federal state in the United States.”
At the same time he praised the French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, who told France Inter radio: “There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be, attack its sovereign borders.”
Barrot added that, while he did not believe the US “would invade” Greenland, “we have entered an era that is seeing the return of the law of the strongest”.
-Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...st-threatening-eu-sovereign-borders-greenland
