France on Monday expressed its “solidarity” with Denmark following US President Donald Trump’s fresh threats to take over the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland.
“Borders cannot be changed by force,” French foreign ministry spokesman Pascal Confavreux told television channel TF1.
“Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders and the Danes, and it is up to them to decide what to do with it,” he said.
On Sunday, Trump doubled down on his claim that Greenland should become part of the United States, despite calls by Denmark’s prime minister to stop “threatening” the territory.
Trump rattled European leaders by attacking Caracas and grabbing Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, who is now being detained in New York.
Washington’s military intervention in Venezuela has reignited fears for Greenland, which Trump has said he wants to annex, given its strategic location in the Arctic.
The French foreign ministry spokesman said that “international law had not been respected” during the US intervention in Venezuela.
“We will not mourn” Maduro, who “had lost his legitimacy,” Confavreux said but added that it was the duty of “prominent, permanent members” of the UN Security Council such as France to denounce any violation of the United Nations Charter.
“We deplore it, we are preparing for this advent of the law of the strongest, but we are not resigned to it,” he said.
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