Denmark’s foreign minister is set to meet the US secretary of state this week in the first in-person, high-level diplomatic talks between the two countries since the re-election of US President Donald Trump and his vow to “take control” of the Danish island of Greenland.
Lars L?kke Rasmussen and Marco Rubio plan to meet on the sidelines of a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels that begins on Thursday, two officials briefed on the preparations told the Financial Times, amid a flurry of diplomatic activity by both sides related to the Arctic territory.
The planned meeting, which the officials stressed could be cancelled due to the tense relations between Copenhagen and Washington, will come as Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visits Greenland, days after Trump’s vice-president, JD Vance, made his own visit to the island.