Representatives from Denmark and Greenland have requested a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, regarding US President Donald Trump's idea of taking over the islands.
Tensions escalated after the White House said that "the US military is always an option," despite several European leaders rejecting Trump's demand that the US take over Greenland, allegedly for strategic reasons.
That island is a territory of Denmark.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned earlier this week that a US takeover of the island would mean the end of the NATO alliance. The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK joined her in saying the mineral-rich island belongs to its people.
Their statement emphasizes the sovereignty of Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark and part of the NATO alliance.
Since his first term, President Donald Trump has floated the idea of taking over Greenland, arguing that the US needs to control the world's largest island to ensure its security, in the face of allegedly growing threats from China and Russia in the Arctic.
The incursion into Venezuela and the bombing of Caracas over the past weekend have further heightened fears across Europe, and Trump and his advisers have in recent days reiterated the US leader's desire to take over the island, which controls access to the Arctic and North Atlantic to North America.
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