Denmark Rejects Trump Demand to Talk Acquisition of Greenland

Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen rejected any talks over a takeover of Greenland demanded by President Donald Trump in a speech in Davos.

• NOTE, earlier: Trump Rules Out Force to Take Greenland, But Says He’ll Remember
• Asked at a doorstep by reporters whether Trump’s demand to negotiate an acquisition of Greenland would be clearly rejected by Danes, he says: “That goes without saying”
  • “We will not enter into any negotiations on the basis of giving up fundamental principles. That is something we will never do”
• Rasmussen, who didn’t hear the speech but was briefed on it, says that “what ...