Commitment to avoid force over Greenland ‘positive’: Danish FM

HOURS after Donald Trump ruled out the use of force to annex Greenland on Wednesday, Denmark’s foreign minister described it as a “positive” sign, but stressed the US president had not backed away from his threat to seize the Arctic territory.

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“What is quite clear after this speech is that the president’s ambition remains intact,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters in Copenhagen, referring to aspeech by Trumpat the World Economic Forum in Davos.

“Tt is, of course, positive in isolation that the president said that about the military, but it doesn’t make the problem go away.”