President Donald Trump told the NATO general, Mark Rutte on Thursday, that American Greenland control is necessary to improve international security, intensifying his campaign to annex the strategic Arctic Island.
“Mark, we need it for international security, not only security – International – we have many of our favorite players sailing along the coast, and we have to be careful,” Trump told Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House for conversations. “We will be talking to you.”
To a direct question about the perspective of an annexation, Trump said: “I think that will happen.”
Trump has made the annexation of Greenland by the United States one of the main conversation issues since he assumed the position on January 20. His comments on Thursday suggested that I could want NATO to participate in their attempt to seize the island, a semi -autonomous Danish territory.
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The comments caused a rapid rejection of the outgoing prime minister of Greenland.
“The president of the United States has once again aerated the idea of annexing us,” said Mute Egede in a Facebook publication. “It’s enough.”
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, leader of the Demokraatit pro-business party of the island, who won the parliamentary elections of Greenland on Tuesday, also rejected the comments.
“Trump’s statement in the United States is inappropriate and only demonstrates once again that we must remain united in these types of situations,” Nielsen wrote on Facebook.
The NATO and the Denmark Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
With Reuters information
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