Even though Donald Trump’s interest in the island of Greenland is quite hypothetical, many EU government officials are currently rushing to emphasize that the sovereignty of the self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark is inviolable. The government in Vienna also rejects Trump’s ‘joint threats’.
“Territorial integrity and sovereignty must be guaranteed by all,” the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. At the same time, it was said that a question about the obligation to provide assistance in the EU Treaty was “purely hypothetical in nature”. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna commented after EU Foreign Affairs Representative Kaja Kallas also joined the discussion. “We must respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland,” the former Estonian head of government said in Brussels on Thursday. “Greenland is part of Denmark,” the EU chief diplomat emphasized, referring to the member of the Nordic Union.
The Foreign Minister of former EU member Britain, David Lammy, tried to downplay Trump’s statements. “That won’t happen,” he said in a BBC interview on Thursday about the future US president’s threats to incorporate Greenland, even with military or economic force. There has been no war between members of the military alliance since NATO was founded, Lammy said. He is confident that Trump will eventually recognize Greenland’s membership in the Danish kingdom.
Meloni rules out annexation “in the coming years.”
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who recently met Trump at his private estate in Mar-a-Lago, also made reassuring comments. “I think I can rule out that the United States will try to annex areas of its interest by force in the coming years,” she told reporters. Trump’s comments were “more of a message to other global actors.”
Lammy also raised suspicions that Trump was concerned about national economic security and the role of Russia and China in the Arctic in relation to the huge island in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nevertheless, he warned of the negative consequences of Trump’s statements: “We know from Donald Trump’s first term that the intensity of his rhetoric and the occasional unpredictability of his statements can have a destabilizing effect.”
The Kremlin is putting a referendum into play, just like in eastern Ukraine
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described Trump’s statements on Greenland as a “quite dramatic development” and emphasized that the Arctic is also “a zone of strategic interests” for Russia. “We want peace and stability in the Arctic,” Peskov emphasized. He assessed the European response as weak. He identified the fear of Trump.
The Kremlin spokesman suggested asking the people of Greenland which country they wanted to belong to and referred to the regions in eastern Ukraine annexed by Russia in 2022, where Moscow had held mock referendums that were internationally criticized. The opinion of Greenlanders must be respected.
Source: Krone
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