Greenland’s Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt said on Saturday that while it is positive that talks with the U.S. are ongoing, they are not yet where Greenland wants them to be, and it is too early to predict where they will lead.
Denmark’s foreign minister said on Saturday that Copenhagen is now in a stronger position in dealing with US President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland, while stressing that the situation remains unresolved.
Speaking to reporters in Nuuk, the capital of the autonomous Danish territory, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said the crisis has eased compared with recent weeks but has not been fully settled.
“We are not out of the crisis, and we do not have a solution yet,” Rasmussen said, adding that Denmark’s position is “much better now than it was a few weeks ago”.
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He stressed that there were currently no explicit threats involved and dismissed the possibility of a trade conflict with Europe, noting that all sides agreed the matter should be addressed through standard diplomatic channels.
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Trump has repeatedly argued since returning to the White House last year that the United States needs control of the strategically located Arctic island for security reasons.
Last month, he appeared to scale back earlier threats to take control of Greenland after reaching a framework understanding with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte aimed at expanding US influence in the region.
A US-Denmark-Greenland working group has been established to discuss Washington’s security concerns in the Arctic, but details have not been made public.
Greenland’s foreign minister Vivian Motzfeldt, who spoke alongside Lokke Rasmussen, welcomed that the parties were now in “direct dialogue,” and added that the talks were respectful.
“But we are not where we want to be yet,” she stressed and said it was “too early” to say where the talks would lead.
While Denmark and Greenland have said they share Trump’s security concerns, they have insisted that sovereignty and territorial integrity are a “red line” in the discussions.
Asked about whether this red line was being respected in the talks, the Danish foreign minister said he would “not go into details” about the ongoing