“It is not easy to think of solutions when Every morning you wake up with a new threat“With these words the Foreign Minister of DenmarkLars Lokke Rasmussen, on Trump’s aspirations to take over Greenland.
In a press conference after his meeting at the White House with the vice president and the US secretary of state, JD Vance y Marco Rubio, The Danish Foreign Minister and his Greenland counterpart, Vivian Motzfeldt, have stated their differences over the future of the arctic islandalthough they have advocated “finding a common path.”
To this end, Denmark announced this Wednesday the creation of a working group with the US to address these ‘disagreements’ over long-term security in the Arctic.
Rasmussen explained that this group will meet for the first time “in a matter of weeks” and hopes it will focus on “addressing American security concerns, while also respect the red lines” of Denmark.
Specifically, he explained that Denmark continues to believe that Greenland’s security can be guaranteed “within the current framework” and said that any idea that does not respect the territorial integrity of Denmark and the right of self-determination of the Greenlandic people is “totally unacceptable.”
The meeting, which lasted 50 minutes, took place in the Eisenhower Executive Building, in the White House complex, in the middle of the Trump’s pressure to acquire the Arctic island, under alleged national security concerns.
This Wednesday, before the meeting, Trump expressed on his Truth Social network that with Greenland in the “hands” of the United States, NATO will be much more effective and added that “Anything less than that is unacceptable.”
“I wouldn’t have done things like Trump”
“I wouldn’t have done things the way he does, but there is some truth in what he says, we share to a certain extent his concerns, there are security issues in the area,” Rasmussen acknowledged about Trump’s continued provocations on this matter.
“There is no need to buy Greenland because we have diplomatic relations with the USwhich are the longest that the United States has had with any other country,” defended the representative of the Danish Government.
In any case, he has celebrated that it is the “first time” that they have held a “frank but also constructive discussion” with members of the Trump Administration on this issue.
“We are allies, we are friendly countries that share a history, it is important to find a fair balance. Of course we have to work for the future, for ourselves and the most important thing is to normalize the relationships as we have had them. We have explained our geopolitical situation and that we do so as allies, defended, for her part, the Foreign Minister of Greenland.
“This has been a meeting that has been conducted with respect, we have made our limits clear and from there you have to look to the future. “I would like to make it clear that there is hope.”he added.
Finally, Rasmussen has denied that there are Chinese investments in Greenland. “I understand that there are concerns, but those investments do not exist,” he stressed.