US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke towards the incoming president’s concept
US President-elect Donald Trump’s concept of taking Greenland will not be good and can by no means truly occur, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has mentioned.
Trump has argued that US management over the Arctic island is a matter of nationwide safety and has refused to rule out taking the Danish autonomous territory by power if essential.
“The concept expressed about Greenland is clearly not one,” Blinken mentioned on Wednesday, throughout a joint press convention along with his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot in Paris.
“But it surely’s not going to occur, so we shouldn’t waste time speaking about it,” he added.
Blinken is visiting South Korea, Japan and France on his final journey overseas earlier than President Joe Biden leaves workplace and Trump is sworn in on January 20. He was a long-time international coverage adviser to Biden and spent the previous 4 years main the State Division in opposing insurance policies enacted by Trump between 2017 and 2021.
Trump received the November 2024 election with each the electoral school and the favored vote, defeating Biden’s former working mate and chosen alternative, Kamala Harris.
In current weeks, the US president-elect has renewed his curiosity in Greenland, which he had beforehand provided to purchase from Denmark. Management over the island was an “absolute necessity” for US nationwide safety, he mentioned on Tuesday.
Requested throughout a press convention at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday if he may “guarantee the world” that he wouldn’t use “army or financial coercion” in his efforts to accumulate Greenland or the Panama Canal, Trump mentioned he wouldn’t.
“No, I can’t guarantee you on both of these two. However I can say this, we’d like them for financial safety,” he mentioned.
“Folks actually don’t even know if Denmark has any authorized proper to it, but when they do, they need to give it up as a result of we’d like it,” he added, referring to Greenland.
The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr, flew to the island on Tuesday and spent a number of hours within the territory’s capital, Nuuk. He was accompanied by a number of aides and a documentary movie crew.
