Pushed explicitly on Frederiksen\u2019s warning that the U.S. has no right to take over the territory, Starmer said: \u201cI stand with her, and she\u2019s right about the future of Greenland.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PM also responded \u201cyes\u201d to the BBC when asked if he would join the Danes in saying \u201chands off Greenland.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has long advocated for the mineral-rich territory to become part of the\u00a0United States, and on Sunday told reporters\u00a0on Air Force One: \u201cWe need Greenland from a national security situation.\u201d <\/p>\n
Starmer has walked a tricky diplomatic tightrope in maintaining good relations with Trump.<\/p>\n
The center-left British prime minister is under pressure from some of his own MPs to condemn the capture of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro by American troops on Saturday. Maduro is due to appear before a U.S. court Monday on drugs and weapons charges. <\/p>\n
Starmer refused to say whether Trump\u2019s actions broke international law, arguing \u201cit\u2019s a complicated situation.\u201d The \u201cpeaceful transition to democracy\u201d should be prioritized, he said.<\/p>\n
Emily Thornberry, chair of the U.K. parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee and a senior Labour MP, said the U.S. military action in Venezuela \u201csets a really bad precedent\u201d for countries like China and Russia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pushed explicitly on Frederiksen\u2019s warning that the U.S. has no right to take over the territory, Starmer said:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14158,174,2013,425,26,184,20224,57,1317,3396,4244,238,2276,294,76,4983,14159],"class_list":{"0":"post-34747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-greenland","8":"tag-british-politics","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-democracy","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-emily-thornberry","15":"tag-greenland","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-mette-frederiksen","18":"tag-nicolas-maduro","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-weapons","24":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116186720706010285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}