
Lawmakers Counter Trump's Greenland Push with Denmark Visit
US lawmakers say they want to lower temperature as Trump ups pressure to annex Greenland16 minutes agoShareSavePaulin KolaShareSaveReutersMost Greenlanders are opposed to Trump's bid to buy their island or to seize it by forceA bipartisan group of members of the US Congress has been visiting Denmark to show support in the face of increasing pressure from President Donald Trump for the US to annex Greenland - a semi-autonomous region of Denmark in the Arctic.The 11-member delegation met MPs as well as Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart Jens-Frederik Nielsen.Group leader Senator Chris Coons said their trip was to listen to the locals and take their views back to Washington "to lower the temperature". Trump has said Greenland is vital for US security - and the US would get it "the easy way" or "the hard way" - a reference to ideas to buy the island or take it by force.


















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