1h ago
11.21 GMT
EU
continues to 'uphold principles of national sovereignty,' bloc says in soft
response to Trump's Greenland comments
Meanwhile,
the European Commission offered a very soft response to a question on Donald
Trump’s latest comments on Greenland.
The
commission’s chief spokesperson Paula Pinho said only that “we had heard it
before, and we stick to what we had already said in this room about that.”
Lead
foreign spokesperson Anitta Hipper also repeated that “the EU will continue to
uphold the principles of national sovereignty, territorial integrity and the
inviolability of borders and the UN Charter.”
“These
are universal principles, and will not stop defending them.”
She
repeated that Greenland is “an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark,”
and any changes on that would be for Greenlanders and Danes to decide.
Repeatedly
pressed for a clearer line on this, she said:
“We have
had this question before, will not comment blow by blow … The situation is that
we expect all our partners to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity
and to abide by the international commitments.”
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