Khaberni - French Foreign Minister Jean Noël Baro said on Wednesday that his country is working with its partners to develop a plan on how to respond if the United States carries out its threat to take over Greenland.
Baro added that the issue will be discussed in his meeting with the foreign ministers of Germany and Poland later on Wednesday.
White House spokeswoman Carolain Levitt announced on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump is considering "several options" for acquiring Greenland, including "using the military", which raises concerns in Europe about the fate of the autonomous Danish island located in the Arctic.
Trump has long expressed ambitions for the island, which has a population of 57,000, considering it to belong to the natural sphere of influence of the United States.
On Tuesday, Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt announced that Greenland and Denmark have requested an urgent meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss Trump's recent statements about his intention to annex the Arctic island.
Nuuk and Copenhagen particularly criticize Trump's recurring argument about the need to act against the Chinese presence in Greenland.
Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said, "We disagree with the idea that Greenland is full of Chinese investments".
Denmark has heavily invested in polar security in the past 12 months, allocating around 90 billion Danish kroner (1.2 billion euros) for this purpose.
However, the US President mocked these expenses on Sunday, saying, "Do you know what Denmark has recently done to enhance the security of Greenland? They added a dog-drawn sled".
In this context, "The Wall Street Journal" and "New York Times" reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed US lawmakers that Trump's best option, in his opinion, is to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding that the threats do not indicate an imminent invasion.
On Tuesday evening, French President Emmanuel Macron said that he does not envision the United States "violating Danish sovereignty".
Denmark is a member of NATO. From this standpoint, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that any US attack on one of the alliance members would mean "the end of everything", including the international security system established at the end of World War II.
She told the "DR" channel, "This is not a conflict with the Kingdom of Denmark... but with all of Europe".
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, alongside Frederiksen in Paris where they were participating in a conference on Ukraine, stated that "the future of Greenland and Denmark is decided only by the people of Denmark and Greenland".
Canada also attracts Trump's interest, who earlier this year said it should become the 51st US state.
France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement expressing their support for Denmark against Trump's claims, stating that "the matter is up to Denmark and Greenland alone to decide on Denmark and Greenland".
They indicated that Denmark "is part" of NATO, like the United States, which is also linked to Denmark through a defense agreement.
Greenland and Denmark have repeatedly confirmed that the territory is not for sale and that it alone decides its future.
The US President and his associates reiterated this demand, following a military operation conducted by the United States in Venezuela, during which they captured President Nicolas Maduro.
