President Donald Trump used the NATO summit in Ankara on Tuesday to renew his assertion that Greenland should fall under American control rather than remain with Denmark, arguing the island is critical to US national security and that Copenhagen has failed to invest sufficiently in the territory.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen pushed back, stating that Greenland is not for sale and that she expects all allies to respect Danish sovereignty.
The summit also saw Trump announce that Washington would lift sanctions on Turkey dating back to 2000 and consider readmitting Ankara to the F-35 fighter programme. He separately threatened to withdraw all US troops from Europe, saying the continent has changed dramatically over the past two decades, and claimed to have held productive talks with Russian and Ukrainian leaders seeking to end their conflict.