The top Washington-based diplomats for Greenland and Denmark met with White House officials at the National Security Council on Thursday as Greenland continues to publicly and privately insist it is not for sale.
Denmark’s Ambassador Jesper Møller Sørensen and Greenland’s head of representation to the US Jacob Isbosethsen met with Trump advisors, diplomats familiar with the matter told CNN.
President Donald Trump has been proclaiming that he wants to purchase Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, since 2019. But neither he nor anyone in either of his administrations has ever privately broached the idea directly with Danish or Greenlandic officials, the diplomats familiar told CNN, despite White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Wednesday that the administration is “actively” discussing a potential purchase.
CNN has reached out to the White House for comment about the meeting.
Even as Trump has repeatedly raised the specter of using the military to take Greenland by force, behind the scenes the US’ relationship with Nuuk and Copenhagen remained business-as-usual for most of last year, the people said.
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