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Overview
- President Donald Trump said the United States "has to have" Greenland for national security and signaled he will revisit the issue in the coming weeks.
- Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Jens-Frederik Nielsen issued a joint statement rejecting any U.S. annexation and asserting Greenlanders’ sovereignty.
- Greenland’s leader separately declared "enough" to annexation talk, saying threats and pressure have no place between friends and that Greenland decides its own future.
- France publicly affirmed Danish and Greenlandic sovereignty, stating borders cannot be changed by force, as Nordic states, the United Kingdom and Canada voiced support for Copenhagen.
- Trump named Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as a voluntary special envoy for Greenland on Dec. 21 and later suspended licenses for five U.S. offshore wind projects, including two by Denmark’s Ørsted.