COPENHAGEN: Denmark’s overseas minister has summoned the highest United States diplomat in Copenhagen over Danish intelligence experiences that US residents have been conducting covert affect operations in Greenland, the ministry stated on Wednesday (Aug 27).
Public broadcaster DR cited unnamed sources as saying the federal government believed no less than three US nationals with ties to President Donald Trump’s administration had been concerned in affect operations geared toward selling Greenland’s secession from Denmark to the US.
“We’re conscious that overseas actors proceed to indicate an curiosity in Greenland and its place within the Kingdom of Denmark,” Overseas Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen stated in a press release.
“It’s subsequently not shocking if we expertise exterior makes an attempt to affect the way forward for the Kingdom within the time forward,” Rasmussen stated.
Neither the broadcaster nor the ministry named the people flagged within the intelligence experiences.
The US embassy in Copenhagen didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Trump has stated he desires the US to take over Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory wealthy in minerals and strategically positioned within the Arctic, for causes of nationwide and worldwide safety, and has not dominated out using power to take action.
His proposal has been firmly rejected in each Copenhagen and Nuuk, Greenland’s capital.
Whereas Trump additionally has since expressed respect for Greenland’s proper to find out its personal future, his feedback about probably taking the territory by power have fuelled uncertainty amongst its 57,000 inhabitants.
