Rubio Says U.S.-Greenland Defense Talks Advance With Monthly Meetings as Trump Renews Push to Control Island
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Updated · Reuters · Jun 3
Rubio Says U.S.-Greenland Defense Talks Advance With Monthly Meetings as Trump Renews Push to Control Island
3 articles · Updated · Reuters · Jun 3
Summary
Monthly talks with Denmark and Greenland over using Greenland for collective defense are "in a good place," Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a House hearing, adding he expects "pretty good news" later.
Greenland is central to missile defense, Rubio said, framing the negotiations around NATO security needs rather than immediate ownership, even as he answered that Greenland is part of Denmark "for now."
Rubio also said he agrees with President Donald Trump that current agreements for basing U.S. forces in Greenland are insufficient and that owning territory would make defense easier.
Trump's earlier insistence that the United States must acquire or control the semi-autonomous Danish territory strained ties with Copenhagen and Europe, though the dispute has since shifted onto a diplomatic track.