US President Donald Trump appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as his Special Envoy to Greenland on December 22. Denmark summoned the US Ambassador and also expressed indignation over Landry's support for Trump's goal of making Greenland part of the United States.
This is reported by Reuters.
Thus, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said on Monday that he would summon the US Ambassador to Copenhagen, saying that he was particularly outraged by Landry's support for Trump's goal of making Greenland part of the United States. Greenland's Prime Minister reiterated that the island will decide its own future.
Trump said on Truth Social that Landry, who was appointed as Special Envoy, "understands how important Greenland is to our national security and will strongly advance our country's interests in the interests of the security, defense and survival of our allies and, of course, the entire world."
Danish Foreign Minister Løkke Rasmussen told Danish TV 2: "I am deeply outraged by the appointment of this Special Envoy. And I am particularly outraged by his statements, which we find completely unacceptable."
Earlier in an email to Reuters, Løkke Rasmussen said: "We insist that everyone, including the United States, must show respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark."
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen wrote on Facebook: "We have been woken up again by the new announcement by the US President. This may seem important, but for us nothing changes. We decide our own future."
Aaja Chemnitz, a member of the Danish parliament from Greenland, said that the appointment of the US ambassador is not a problem in itself.
"The problem is that he is tasked with taking over Greenland or making it part of the United States, and no one in Greenland wants that. There is a desire to respect the future that the majority in Greenland wants, namely to remain their own country and develop their independence over time," she said in a comment to the publication.
As Ukrainian News Agency reported, earlier in December, Denmark for the first time included the United States of America on the list of states that pose a potential threat to the kingdom's security.
Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump stated several times that he would like Greenland to become part of the US. In March, he even suggested that this could happen militarily.
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