President of the united states, Donald Trump maintains after the Greenlandic-Danish-American meeting in Washington that the USA still wants Greenland.
- We will see what happens, but we need it (Greenland, ed.), he says during a press conference in the Oval Office about school milk.
At the same time, he emphasizes that the USA and Denmark have a good relationship.
- I think something is going to happen, says Trump.
The president emphasizes that he has not yet been briefed on the meeting that took place earlier in the day on Wednesday, but that it will happen as soon as the school milk press conference is over.
- The problem is that Denmark cannot do anything if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland, but the USA can do something. You could see that last week with Venezuela.
- I cannot count on Denmark being able to defend itself. They talked about putting in an extra dog sled, and they meant it, last month. It doesn't work, he says.
Denmark's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, and Greenland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Motzfeldt, met on Wednesday with the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, and US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in Washington D.C. to talk about Greenland.
After the meeting, the Danish foreign minister tells a joint press conference with Motzfeldt that the Kingdom of Denmark and the USA have a fundamental disagreement about Greenland, but that a so-called high-level group must try to clarify the problems.
- We expect that such a group will meet for the first time within a few weeks, said Løkke.
According to Motzfeldt, she spoke during the meeting both in terms of politics and emotions. She says this to the Greenlandic media Sermitsiaq.
- At the meeting in which I, as a Greenlander, participate, I emphasized that I, as a Greenlander, and since I came from Greenland, also placed great emphasis on the feelings we experience in this country, and the increasing pressure we have experienced over the course of a year, which has created fear and uncertainty in the population.
- And our allies must understand that, says Vivian Motzfeldt.
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