(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, JAN 21 - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Tuesday criticised Donald Trump's "unacceptable" pledge to seize the Panama Canal, which the returning US president repeated in his inaugural address. Baerbock was asked in an interview about Trump's comments Monday on the waterway and on his desire to control Greenland, an autonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark. "Any threat against a NATO member or other states is of course completely unacceptable," Baerbock told German broadcaster RBB. Baerbock however said that Germany needed to "play it smart", when responding to the president's statements. "It's not about how President Trump says something... but we should look at why he says something," Baerbock said. The focus should be on "what interests are behind (Trump's statements)... and then standing up for our own interests", she said. (ANSA-AFP).