Denmark’s Top Diplomat Tells Trump to Keep Hands Off Greenland

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said his country won’t bow to Donald Trump’s demand to hand over Greenland and summoned the US ambassador to explain his president’s comments.

Lokke held talks with Ambassador Ken Howery in Copenhagen on Monday after Trump announced plans to appoint Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as a special envoy to Greenland - an autonomous territory under the Kingdom of Denmark - with the aim of making it part of the US.

Lars Lokke Rasmussen

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The meeting served “to say ‘no’ and draw a clear red line, but of course also simply to ask for an explanation,” ...