White House and Denmark contradict each other over Greenland meeting

The White House and Denmark publicly contradicted each other about what had been agreed at a meeting hosted by Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday, as President Trump continued to press for U.S. ownership of Greenland. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that a delegation from Denmark and Greenland had agreed "to continue to have technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland." Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, said the meeting instead agreed "to launch a high-level working group to explore if a common way forward can be found to address the American security concerns in relation to Greenland." Mr.

Rasmussen said U.S. ownership of Greenland remained a red line for Denmark and warned that if the United States did not respect Denmark’s territorial integrity and Greenlandic self-determination the working-group process "will not be successful and will probably be short-lived." The disagreement came amid a broader push to bolster defenses in the region.

Several European countries deployed small numbers of troops to Greenland this week as part of what they described as a military exercise, and President Emmanuel Macron of France said Paris would be sending more "land, air and maritime assets." Small groups of Danish soldiers were seen in downtown Nuuk and a Danish warship capable of breaking ice was operating off the capital.

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