A bipartisan congressional delegation was scheduled to meet with Danish and Greenlandic officials on Friday, hoping to show their support for Greenland’s territorial integrity, despite President Trump. he continued to push to acquisition of the island.
The White House said Thursday that the discussions with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Danish officials were “technical conversations about the acquisition of Greenland.” That claim has been vehemently rejected by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who told Danish channel TV2 on Thursday that if the US side talks that way, it will be a “very, very short series of meetings”.
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US Special Envoy for Greenland Jeff Landry told Fox News Friday that he believes a deal can be reached with the US acquiring Greenland and plans to visit the island in March.
“The president is serious. I think he’s set his sights. He’s told Denmark what he’s looking for, and now it’s a matter of getting Secretary Rubio and Vice President JD Vance to make a deal,” Landry said, according to Reuters.
The leaders of Denmark and Greenland do repeatedly rejected The idea of the US taking over the island. Earlier this week, Denmark’s top diplomat, Rasmussen, said his country and the US remain at “fundamental” differences over the future of Greenland, but will continue to talk.
Greenland – the largest island in the world, located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans – is an autonomous territory of Denmark. Mr Trump has argued that the US should control the vast, largely frozen island national security reasons, To face the geopolitical threat posed by Russia and China. The president has not ruled out taking possession of the territory through military force.
Speaking at the University of Copenhagen on Friday, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is participating in the congressional visit, told attendees: “Millions of Americans are very concerned about the recent rhetoric about the United States taking over Greenland, either by buying it or using the military.”
“Such rhetoric not only undermines our bilateral relationship, it undermines the NATO Alliance at a time when our adversaries seek to profit from division,” Shaheen said. “(Russian President) Vladimir Putin would welcome any move that breaks up NATO or diverts attention and resources away from Ukraine,” Shaheen said.
Denmark is a member of the US-led military alliance and several NATO members have expressed concern over the Trump administration’s rhetoric on Greenland.
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On Thursday, the Danish soldiers arrived there, as Troops of NATO members including FranceGermany and the Netherlands in an effort to strengthen the security of the island.
“At Denmark’s request, I have decided that France will participate in the joint exercises organized by Denmark in Greenland, Operation Arctic Endurance,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in a social media post on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the presence of European troops in Greenland does not affect Mr Trump’s “objective of acquiring Greenland at all”.
Earlier this month, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom and Greenland said in a joint statement that “Greenland belongs to its people” and stressed that America’s NATO allies are taking security in the Arctic region seriously.
“NATO has made it clear that the Arctic region is a priority and European allies are strengthening. We and many other allies have increased our presence, activities and investments to keep the Arctic safe and deter adversaries,” the statement said.
Potential US military action in Greenland could jeopardize the eight-decade-old NATO alliance. According to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, an armed attack against a NATO member is considered an attack against the entire alliance. Any US action in Greenland could undermine this core principle.
Article 5 has only been triggered once in history, after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. During the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, NATO allies including Denmark provided military support to the US on the ground.