MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. Russia has no claims regarding Greenland, Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin told TASS in an interview, commenting on US President Donald Trump’s remarks that if the United States fails take Greenland under control, Russia or China will.
"Russia has no aggressive plans with regard to its Arctic neighbors. It is not threatening them with military action, not blackmailing them, and is not preparing to lay a claim to their territory," the diplomat said.
The Russian ambassador recalled Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen’s remarks during a conference in Washington on January 14, where he said that neither Russia nor China posed a threat to Greenland today.
"Nevertheless, NATO countries, including Denmark, are broadly using fantasies about a Russian or Chinese threat in order to militarize the Arctic Region," the ambassador added.
In his opinion, "by dragging NATO into the Arctic, including to Greenland, Denmark has been promoting a confrontational approach, which always leads to degradation of security <…> and fuels military tensions in the region."
