Denmark to summon US ambassador over Trump’s special envoy to Greenland

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said Monday he would summon the U.S. ambassador to Denmark for a conversation about President Donald Trump’s appointment of a special envoy to Greenland.

“I am deeply upset by this appointment and this statement, which I find completely unacceptable,” Løkke Rasmussen told Danish media outlet TV2 in an interview on Monday morning. He added that he hoped a meeting could take place today or tomorrow.

Since the start of his second presidential term, Trump has repeatedly said the United States needs Greenland, a self-governing territory of resource-rich Denmark. for security reasons. He has refused to rule out the use of force.

Meanwhile, Greenland has shown little interest in becoming a leading country. mining nationand its leaders have critical calls from the US administration for the country to become a US territory.

Late Sunday, Trump published on social networks that he had appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as special US envoy to Greenland.

“Jeff understands how critical Greenland is to our national security and will strongly advance our country’s interests for the safety, security and survival of our allies, and indeed the world,” the president wrote.

The Danish Foreign Ministry declined to comment further and referred to Løkke Rasmussen’s interview on TV2.

In a Instagram post translated by CNBC, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said: “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders and the United States should not take over Greenland. »

“No one should be allowed to change national borders by force. Neither politically nor militarily,” Frederiksen wrote Monday, adding that she hoped Denmark’s territorial integrity would be respected.