内容摘要：The State Department said it does not “discuss the details of our diplomatic communications with other governments.”

The State Department said it does not “discuss the details of our diplomatic communications with other governments.”

who was tricked onto a Kigali-bound aircraft while visiting Dubai. He was later freed after Biden administration pressure.Rwanda is also criticized over its aggressive military actions in the region. United Nations experts have documented

that this year seized two cities in neighboring eastern Congo, an area rich in mineral wealth. The unrest led to fears of a resurgence of regional war, and a number of Western countries. Rwanda has said it is defending ethnic Tutsis in Congo.The Trump administration, which sanctioned a Rwandan government minister and cited links to the rebels, is

. Agreeing to take in deportees from the U.S. could improve Rwanda’s standing with Washington and others.Rwanda in 2019 struck a deal with the U.N. refugee agency to help take in migrants removed from Libya, where many people trying to reach Europe have

. The U.N. says the transit center in Rwanda has capacity for 700 evacuees. Late last year, it said over 2,400 people had been assisted in what is meant to be a temporary stay during efforts to find “long-term solutions” including resettlement elsewhere.

Before its deal with Britain collapsed, Rwanda showed off another transit center, a refurbished hostel in Kigali, that could host 100 people, with more accommodations made available as needed.Many in this semi-autonomous territory are worried and offended by

of their mineral-rich homeland, even by force, because he says the U.S. needs it “for national security.”Greenlanders, after President Trump’s remarks about acquiring their homeland, are seeing unprecedented interest in independence from Denmark ahead of a March 11 election. (AP Video: James Brooks, Emilio Morenatti, Luis Andres Henao)

“How can a few words … change the whole world?” asked Aqqaluk Lynge, a former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and founder of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, which governs Greenland. “It can because he’s playing with fire. We’re seeing another United States here with whole new ideas and wishes.”Greenland is vital to the world, though much of the world may not realize it.