Rubio to meet Danish officials next week to discuss Greenland

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he will meet with Danish officials next week to discuss the future of Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish territory, after days of mounting threats from the Trump administration to take the island. Mr. Rubio’s comment followed a revived push by the Trump administration to acquire Greenland, which the article said was apparently emboldened by the U.S.

raid in Venezuela and the capture of ousted president Nicolás Maduro. The piece noted that Mr. Rubio told lawmakers this week that President Trump plans to buy Greenland rather than invade it, while Vice President JD Vance declined on Fox News to rule out military force, saying Mr.

Trump was "willing to go as far as he has to" to "defend American interests." European leaders issued a statement saying Arctic security was a key priority and could be achieved only by upholding United Nations Charter principles of "sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders." Greenland officials have pressed for talks: Vivian Motzfeldt, Greenland’s foreign minister, said on Facebook that Denmark and Greenland had requested an urgent meeting with Mr.

Rubio because of the "increasingly outspoken statements regarding Greenland," and that a previous request had gone unanswered. Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s minister of business and natural resources, told DealBook that under U.S.

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