European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Thursday (Jan 9) said that Greenland’s sovereignty must be respected after United States president-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out military action to seize the Arctic island. “Greenland is part of Denmark,” Kallas told journalists. “We have to respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland.” Trump set off new alarm bells on Tuesday at a news conference when he refused to rule out military intervention over the Panama Canal and Greenland, both of which he has said he wants the US to control. The incoming US leader has designs on the mineral- and oil-rich Arctic island, an autonomous territory of EU member Denmark that itself has eyes on independence. Kallas said she had spoken to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen after Trump’s comments. “She assured that the Danish and American relations have been very good,” Kallas said.
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