A face-to-face meeting between Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is planned for this week. This will be the first bilateral high-level meeting since US President Donald Trump took office for his second term on January 20 this year, Reuters reported, citing a publication in the British newspaper. Financial Times, BTA reports.
The talks between Rasmussen and Rubio will take place on the sidelines of the meeting of foreign ministers of NATO member states, which begins on Thursday in the Belgian capital Brussels. According to sources involved in the preparations for the meeting, the main topics will be transatlantic cooperation and security in the Arctic.
Last week, Agence France-Presse reported that Rasmussen criticized the "tone" of US Vice President J.D. Vance's claims that Copenhagen "has not invested enough" in Greenland. The statement was made during Vance's visit to the strategic and resource-rich island, which has important geopolitical importance for the US and Europe.