Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada supports “fundamental importance of respect for sovereignty” following the United States’ renewed interest in making Greenland a U.S. territory.
The minister spoke with her Danish counterpart Lars Lokke Rasmussen on Dec. 23 and later in the day posted on social media that she had conveyed to him “Canada’s support for the fundamental importance of respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
“I reaffirmed our friendship and partnership as members of the Arctic Council and NATO, and through the Canadian-EU strategic partnership launched under Denmark’s EU Presidency,” she wrote on X.
Anand’s comments came two days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the appointment of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as Washington’s special envoy to Greenland….