Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart, Vivian Motzfeldt, were in Washington on Wednesday for a crisis meeting with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Foreign ministers from the Arctic island and Denmark are to meet in Washington amid tensions over Trump’s claim on the territory

The US vice-president has previously accused Denmark of ‘not doing a good job at keeping Greenland safe’