Berlin:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Saturday that the principle of sovereign borders must be protected, days after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out force to take Greenland.
Speaking to a congress of his Social Democratic Party ahead of a general election next month, Scholz said: “The principle of the inviolability of borders applies to all countries, whether in the East or the West,” referring to Russia’s invasion. of Ukraine.
“This is a principle that every state must follow, whether it is a small state or a large and powerful one,” he said.
“No country is another’s backyard, no country should have to fear its larger neighbors. That is a central part of what we call Western values.”
Trump set off alarm bells on Tuesday when he refused to rule out military intervention over the Panama Canal and Greenland, both of which he has said he wants the United States to control.
That prompted Scholz to tell a hastily called news conference on Wednesday that Trump had caused “remarkable misunderstanding” among EU leaders.
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