You cannot annex other countries, Danish and Greenlandic leaders tell Trump

Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen demand respect for borders after US appoints Greenland envoy

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.

“We have said it very clearly before. Now we say it again. National borders and the sovereignty of states are rooted in international law … You cannot annex other countries,” Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a joint statement.