THE GUARDIAN: Danish embassy due to brief journalists on results of negotiations involving JD Vance and Marco Rubio
Closely watched talks on Donald Trump’s demands to take over Greenland have ended in Washington after nearly an hour.
The vice-president, JD Vance, and secretary of state, Marco Rubio, hosted the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland on Wednesday in what observers worried could be an ambush meant to pressure the Danes into ceding the territory under US economic and military pressure.
The Danish embassy in Washington was due to brief journalists on the results of the talks within the hour.
Earlier, Trump said it would be “unacceptable” for Greenland – a semi-autonomous territory of the Nato member Denmark – to be “in the hands” of any country other than the US, reiterating his demand to take over the Arctic island hours before the high-stakes talks on its future.
“The US needs Greenland for the purpose of national security. Nato should be leading the way for us to get it,” the US president said on social media. The alliance would become “far more formidable and effective” with the territory under US control, he claimed.
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