{"id":220580,"date":"2025-12-23T17:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=220580"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:05:31","slug":"denmark-and-greenland-leaders-say-trump-cannot-annex-other-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/220580\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark and Greenland leaders say Trump cannot annex other countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland have demanded respect for their borders after Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to the largely self-governing Danish territory, which he has said repeatedly should be under US control, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/22\/denmark-summon-us-ambassador-trump-greenland-envoy-appointment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have said it very clearly before. Now we say it again. National borders and the sovereignty of states are rooted in international law &hellip; You cannot annex other countries,&rdquo; Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders added that &ldquo;fundamental principles&rdquo; were at stake. &ldquo;Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders, and the US should not take over Greenland,&rdquo; they said. &ldquo;We expect respect for our common territorial integrity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland have demanded respect for their borders after Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to the largely self-governing Danish territory, which he has said repeatedly should be under US control, The Guardian writes. &ldquo;We have said it very clearly before. Now we say it again. National borders and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":220469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220581,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220580\/revisions\/220581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}