Denmark’s Top Diplomat Tells Trump to Keep His Hands Off Greenland
Denmark's Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Loekke Rasmussen
Photographer: Emil Nicolai Helms/AFP/Getty ImagesDanish 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.