New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- Amid the US calling for a takeover of Greenland for its security concerns, Russia has announced that they consider Greenland a part of Denmark.

This is the first time Moscow has directly opposed the US' attempts at a potential acquisition of the world's biggest island. It has said that the security situation surrounding the island was "extraordinary" from the perspective of international law.

Moscow said this week that its was unacceptable for the West to keep claiming that Russia and China threatened Greenland, and said that the crisis over the territory showed the double standards of Western powers which claimed moral superiority.

Maria Zakharova, the Director of the Department of Information and Press at the Ru...