President Donald Trump and Denmark have a “fundamental disagreement” over the kingdom’s ownership of Greenland, which was not resolved during a meeting with top U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday, a Danish official said.
“For us, ideas that would not respect territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the right of self determination of the Greenlandic people are, of course, totally unacceptable,” Danish Foreign Affairs Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters after the meeting.
“But we also agree to disagree, and therefore we will, however, continue to talk,” Rasmussen said during a news conference at the Danish Embassy.
Greenland’s foreign minister, Vivian Matzfeldt, stressed “how important it is from our side to strengthen our cooperation with United States.”
“But that doesn’t mean that we want to be owned by [the] United States,” she added.
The comments following the meeting with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio came as Trump continues to demand that Greenland become a part of the U.S.
Before the talks began, Trump said on social media that anything less than Greenland becoming a part of the United States would be “unacceptable.”
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