The Danish Foreign Minister Lars Locke Rasmusen He met today with a leading US Embassy official to discuss the Wall Street Journal report, according to which the US allegedly seeking to strengthen spying in Greenland.

“We are close US allies and therefore we consider it unacceptable when one starts spying on the other,” Rasmusen said on Danish state television. He emphasized that the Foreign Ministry wanted to make it clear to the American side that Danish’s internal affairs concern the kingdom exclusively. Rasmussen said, after the meeting was completed, he obtained the impression that the US Embassy’s assistant Jennifer Hall Godfri It took the message seriously.

The US ambassador to Denmark remains vacant after Donald Trump’s return to the White House. His candidacy Kenneth Hauerchosen by President Trump, has not yet been approved by the Senate. Until then, the Jennifer Hall Gondfri He is the head of the US Embassy in Copenhagen.

WSJ report said that US intelligence services were instructed to learn more about With the Greenland’s autonomous movement and for his positions in terms of the exploitation of the island’s natural resources by Americans.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his strong desire to annex Greenland, arguing that the island is vital to US national security.

Greenland is a former Denmark colony to which it belongs since 1953. In 1979 it gained some autonomy and then the first parliamentary elections on the island were held, but Copenhagen continues to define its foreign policy, defense and monetary policy of Greenland. In 2009, Greenland won the right to declare complete independence after a referendum, but it has not done so as it worries that the standard of living of its inhabitants will get worse.