OSLO, May 7 (Reuters) — Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said connected Wednesday he would telephone successful nan acting U.S. ambassador to Denmark for talks aft nan Wall Street Journal reported Washington had ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to measurement up spying connected Greenland.
“I person publication nan article successful nan Wall Street Journal and it worries maine greatly because we do not spy connected friends,” Rasmussen told reporters during an informal gathering of EU overseas ministers successful Warsaw.
“We are going to telephone successful nan U.S. acting ambassador for a chat astatine nan overseas ministry to spot if we tin corroborate this information, which is somewhat disturbing,” Rasmussen added.
The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drafting America’s spying servants of nan state into President Donald Trump’s run to return complete nan island, the WSJ reported connected Tuesday, citing 2 anonymous sources.
A U.S. State Department spokesperson said nan section does not remark connected intelligence matters and referred to an earlier remark from National Security Council spokesperson James Hewitt, who said Trump has been very clear that nan U.S. is concerned astir nan information of Greenland and nan Arctic.
Trump has many times said he wants to take complete Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory successful nan Arctic, refusing to norm retired annexation by force, creating a negotiated situation betwixt nan U.S., Denmark and Greenland.
The leaders of Denmark and Greenland person said only Greenlanders can decide nan territory’s future.
However, they person recovered themselves treading a delicate statement betwixt firmly dismissing U.S. ambitions complete Greenland and trying to support bully ties pinch their accepted ally.
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