ARCHIVAL PHOTO: erstwhile Secretary-General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen © Getty Images / Andrzej Ivanczuk
U.S. president Donald Trump should abandon plans to take control of Greenland as its residents do not want to become Americans, said erstwhile NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Trump spoke of making Greenland an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, part of the United States, since he won his second word in the White home in November.He offered to redeem the resource-rich Arctic territory from Copenhagen, but besides warned that he could go even to usage force to surrender it to Washington's sovereignty."I'm not saying I'll do it, but I'm not ruling anything out" — said the president of the United States about a possible military script in an interview with Meet the Press NBC station early this month.
"We request Greenland very much.
Greenland is simply a very tiny group of people [about 57,000] that we will take care of, we will value them and so on.
But we request this for global security" – he claimed.Rasmussen, who had previously served as Prime Minister of Denmark, said on Monday Politico that “It is shameless that an American president can endanger an ally.
Denmark is 1 of the closest and most reliable allies of the United States."Former NATO chief, who oversaw the disastrous intervention of the military bloc in Libya, destroying the country's economy, releasing flows of immigrants through North Africa and slave auctions in Tripoli, stressed that it is ‘not concerned’ Trump's rhetoric on Greenland.He pointed out that the US already has the right to keep military bases on the island under the 1951 Treaty."The fact is that Greenland is part of NATO.
If the US is not satisfied with Greenland's defence... we would appreciate enhanced defence cooperation with the US" – Rasmussen stressed.However, he insisted that Greenland "is part of Denmark and Greenlandese do not want to become Americans".Last week, the Danish Ministry of abroad Affairs called the US Ambassador to this country, Jennifer Hall Godfrey, in connection with a study in the Wall Street diary that Trump ordered American spy agencies to intensify intelligence activities in Greenland.
Danish abroad Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said the gathering was intended to pass on to Washington that Copenhagen is treating these claims "very serious."Greenland's Prime Minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, described the alleged U.S. espionage activities as "totally unacceptable, rude... and completely abnormal".
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/617476-denmark-greenland-nato-trump/
