Marco Rubio, who after the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Ministers of NATO countries in Brussels, met with American journalists, He repelled the allegations of the premiere of Danish Mette Frederiksen that it was unacceptable for one of the allies in NATO to threaten the other taking over the territory.
“Well, nobody annexed anything. The decision will belong to the Greenlanders” – Rubio said.
The US Secretary of State said that also the American vice president of JD Vance, who came to Greenland last week (The visit lasted several hours and limited to visiting the American base), he expressed clearly that he intends to “respect the right of Greenlanders to self -determination“.
Rubio noticed, however, that at some point it was the inhabitants of the island who made it clear that they want to be independent of Denmark.
“Denmark should therefore focus on the fact that the Greenlanders do not want to be part of it. We did not give them this idea because they have been talking about it for a long time” – assessed the Secretary of State of the USA.
He added that if, however, the inhabitants of the island decide to break away from Denmark, then the United States will potentially be ready to enter and say “Ok, we can create a partnership with you“.
To journalists' questions, why in that case President Donald Trump said that he did not exclude the takeover of Greenland by force, Rubio replied that The president was misunderstood, because he meant that he did not intend to exclude an American army, if Greenland was attacked by a foreign power, such as China or Russia.
The relations between Washington and Copenhagen are recently tense due to the regularly repeated announcements of President Trump that Greenland, the autonomous dependent territory of Denmark, should become part of the United States.
On Thursday in Brussels, Rubio met with the head of Danish diplomacy Larske Rasmussen. In the conversation, the issue of American claims against Greenland was also raised. Rasmussen later said that he conveyed Rubio that “Trump's statements reached a level that was not in line with international law” and that he had the impression that he was “heard”.
