foreign secretary

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Lammy, a former foreign secretary who is close to US vice-president JD Vance, said he had never believed the US would use military force to annex the Danish territory.

From BBC

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told the BBC on Thursday that the U.K. wouldn’t be signing on to the board for now, in part because of concerns over the potential involvement of Putin.

From The Wall Street Journal

Details are currently sparse, but Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she was "not aware of any discussions at all" on Greenland's vast - and largely untapped - reserves of rare earth minerals, many of which are crucial for technologies including mobile phones and electric vehicles.

From BBC

The UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said she hoped this meant that there would be "the direct discussions that Denmark had asked for, for Denmark, Greenland and the United States on the way forward around Greenland, protecting Greenland's sovereignty".

From BBC

"The first is a return to some of the discussions that Denmark and Greenland had asked for with the United States, where they had begun those discussions in Washington last week and that's what they want to focus on," the UK foreign secretary said.

From BBC