Macron rejects Trump's plan for Greenland, proposal for Putin to mediate Israel-Iran crisis

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· Posted: Jun 15, 2025 8:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

French President Emmanuel Macron, during a sojourn to Greenland to connection his enactment to the Arctic island, said connected Sunday that Russia lacked the credibility to mediate the situation betwixt Israel and Iran, arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested.

In an interrogation with ABC News connected Sunday, Trump said helium was unfastened to Russian President Vladimir Putin — whose forces invaded Ukraine successful 2022 and who has resisted Trump's attempts to broker a ceasefire with Kyiv — mediating betwixt Israel and Iran. Macron said helium rejected specified an idea.

"I bash not judge that Russia, which is present engaged successful a high-intensity struggle and has decided not to respect the UN Charter for respective years now, tin beryllium a mediator," he said.

Macron besides said France did not instrumentality portion successful immoderate of Israel's attacks against Iran.

The French leader was visiting Greenland — a self-governing portion of Denmark with the close to state independency that Trump has threatened to instrumentality implicit — up of a travel to Canada for the G7 leaders' summit.

WATCH | What's with Trump's obsession with Greenland?:

At a quality league alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland's prime minister, Macron said the land was threatened by "predatory ambition" and that its concern was a wake-up telephone for each Europeans.

"Greenland is not to beryllium sold, not to beryllium taken," helium said, adding that helium has spoken with Trump up of his trip and would talk with him astir Greenland astatine the G7. "I deliberation determination is simply a mode guardant successful bid to intelligibly physique a amended aboriginal successful co-operation and not successful provocation oregon confrontation."

However, Macron said helium yet doubted the United States would invade Greenland.

"I don't judge that successful the end, the U.S., which is an state and a friend, volition ever bash thing assertive against different ally," helium said, adding helium believed that "the United States of America remains engaged successful NATO and our cardinal and humanities alliances."

Trump has said helium wants the U.S. to instrumentality implicit the mineral-rich, strategically located Arctic island, and helium has not ruled retired force.

His vice-president, JD Vance, visited a U.S. subject basal determination successful March. Macron is the archetypal overseas person to sojourn Greenland since Trump's explicit threats to "get" the island.

According to an IFOP canvass for NYC.eu published connected Saturday, 77 per cent of French radical and 56 per cent of Americans disapprove of an annexation of Greenland by the U.S., and 43 per cent of the French would backmost utilizing French subject powerfulness to forestall a U.S. invasion.

After Trump's threats, Denmark's Frederiksen made respective visits to Paris to question French and European backing and has placed orders for French-made surface-to-air missiles, successful a displacement of absorption for Copenhagen.