Denmark welcomes US meeting over Greenland

DENMARK has welcomed a meeting with the US next week to discuss President Donald Trump's renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island of Greenland to come under American control.

- BY CLAUDIA CIOBANU

"This is the dialogue that is needed, as requested by the government together with the Greenlandic government," Denmark's defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen told Danish broadcaster DR yesterday.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio had said on Wednesday that a meeting about Greenland would happen next week, without giving details about timing, location or participants.

"I'm not here to talk about Denmark or military intervention. I'll be meeting with them next week, we'll have those conversations with them then," Mr Rubio told reporters on Capitol Hill.