Danish minister meets US envoy over alleged Greenland espionage plot
CopenhagencTypeface:> Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen met with a senior US embassy official on Thursday to discuss an alleged espionage plot in Greenland, he told Denmark's DR television station.
'We are a close ally of the US and therefore we cannot accept it when people start spying on each other,' Rasmussen told the broadcaster. He added that the Foreign Ministry wanted to make it clear to the Americans that responsibility for internal affairs of the kingdom of Denmark lies with the kingdom itself.
Greenland is largely autonomous, but officially belongs to the kingdom of Denmark.
Following the meeting at the Foreign Ministry, Rasmussen said he had the impression that the chargé d'affaires of the US embassy, Jennifer Hall Godfrey, had taken the message seriously. The Wall Street Journal reported that the US government has asked its intelligence services to find out more about the independence movement in Greenland. (DPA)
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