“Now the American president has brought the idea into play again. I can’t accept that under any circumstances, ”wrote the current Greenland Prime Minister Mute B. Eggede on Facebook on Friday.
Eggede announced that it would have the other party leaders convened as soon as possible, because this time the rejection towards Trump had to be tightened. One should not get through the Greenlanders disrespectful. “Enough is enough,” Eggede made it clear.
His more likely successor as head of government, Liberal Jens-Frederik Nielsen, whose party democracy had won the recent parliamentary elections, also rejected the statements of the US President. “Trump’s statement in the USA is inappropriate and only shows once more that we have to stand together in such situations,” said Nielsen. In the election program of his party, it said: “Greenland is not for sale. Not today. Not tomorrow. Never.”
“We’ll get it – one way or another”
Trump has been talking again and again for months of wanting to take control of Greenland, which belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark. At a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the White House, he said on Thursday when asked by a reporter about his plans for a possible annexation: “Well, I think it will happen.” Trump emphasized the great strategic importance of the island and that Denmark was very far away.
In his speech on the situation of the nation before the US Congress, Trump emphasized: “We need Greenland for national security and even for international security – I think we will get it – either way. We will get it. “
The result of the Greenland election
As reported, the opposition Democratite Party came to first place in the Greenland parliamentary election on Wednesday. Party leader Nielsen is for a hard line against Trump. At the same time, the party comes to achieve independence from Denmark in the long term. The Naleraq protest party landed in second place. In the election campaign, she was the only party to have a quick exit from the Danish kingdom and an approximation to the United States
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Source: Nachrichten
