COPENHAGEN, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland will meet with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday, the Danish foreign minister said on Tuesday, amid President Donald Trump’s push to take control of the Arctic island.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt had requested a meeting after Trump recently stepped up threats to take over Greenland, an autonomous territory under the Kingdom of Denmark.
Trump first floated the idea of a U.S. takeover of Greenland in 2019 during his first term in office, although he faces opposition in Washington, including from within his own party.
While Denmark has ruled Greenland for centuries, the territory has gradually been moving towards independence since 1979, a goal shared by all political parties elected to the island’s parliament.
(Reporting by Soren Jeppesen and Stine Jacobsen, editing by Terje Solsvik)
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