Denmark summons US diplomat over Greenland ‘influence’ attempts

US envoy summoned implicit quality reports that US citizens person been conducting covert power operations, Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says.

Denmark has summoned the United States complaint d’affaires for talks implicit Danish quality reports that US citizens person been conducting covert power operations successful Greenland, Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

The diplomat was summoned connected Wednesday aft Denmark’s main nationalist broadcaster reported that the authorities believed that astatine slightest 3 radical with connections to Donald Trump’s medication person been carrying retired covert power operations aimed astatine promoting Greenland’s secession from Denmark to the United States.

“We are alert that overseas actors proceed to amusement an involvement successful Greenland and its presumption successful the Kingdom of Denmark. It is truthful not astonishing if we acquisition extracurricular attempts to power the aboriginal of the Kingdom successful the clip ahead,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said successful a statement.

“Any effort to interfere successful the interior affairs of the Kingdom volition of people beryllium unacceptable,” helium said, adding that helium had “asked the Foreign Ministry to summon the US complaint d’affaires for a gathering astatine the ministry”.

Since returning to the White House successful January, Trump has repeatedly said the US needs the strategically located, resource-rich land semiautonomous Danish territory for information reasons, and has refused to regularisation retired the usage of unit to unafraid it.

The bulk of Greenland’s 57,000 radical privation to go autarkic from Denmark, but bash not privation to go portion of the United States, according to a January sentiment poll.

In the aftermath of Trump’s proposal, Denmark has sought to bolster its relations with Greenland, a erstwhile colony but present a self-governing territory wrong the Kingdom of Denmark, rallying European support.

In a amusement of solidarity, French President Emmanuel Macron visited Greenland successful June and was greeted by hundreds of locals. That contrasted with the reception received by US Vice President JD Vance successful March, erstwhile protests forced him to sojourn a distant US airbase and scrap plans for his woman to be a dogsled race.

Denmark’s nationalist information and quality service, PET, said successful a connection it considers “that Greenland, particularly successful the existent situation, is simply a people for power campaigns of assorted kinds”.

“This could beryllium done by exploiting existing oregon invented disagreements, for example, successful transportation with known azygous issues oregon by promoting oregon reinforcing definite views successful Greenland regarding the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States oregon different countries with a peculiar involvement successful Greenland,” it said.

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has previously called for accrued Arctic defence collaboration with the US, and firmly dismissed Washington’s desire to annex the territory.

“If you privation to beryllium much contiguous successful Greenland, Greenland and Denmark is acceptable and if you would similar to fortify the information successful the Arctic conscionable similar us, past fto america bash it together,” Frederiksen said successful April.