The outgoing prime minister of Greenland on Thursday said he would summon party leaders to strengthen their rejection of US President Donald Trump’s plan to annex the island territory, following his most recent comments on the issue.

Greenland’s leaders issued a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump’s renewed calls to annex it Thursday, after the president once again expressed his desire to take over the Arctic island.

President Donald Trump said that he thought that the potential annexation of Greenland by the United States would happen. Trump defended that idea, saying the U.S. needs Greenland "for international security.