March 23, 2017 - 9:55 AM
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and Denmark's prime minister have a scheduled a White House meeting for next Thursday.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer says the March 30 visit by Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen will also fall on the eve of the 100th anniversary of Denmark formally ceding the U.S. Virgin Islands to the United States.
Spicer says Trump and Rasmussen will discuss bilateral relations, defeating the Islamic State group, and the defence and security relationship between their countries, bilaterally and through NATO.
The meeting comes as tensions between Turkey and the Netherlands run high over the Dutch authorities' refusal to allow Turkish ministers to hold campaign meetings to address Turkish citizens before an April 16 referendum on expanding the powers of the Turkish president.
News from © The Associated Press, 2017