NUUK: Greenland’s prime minister on Wednesday (Mar 5) hit again at President Donald Trump’s pledge to take the Arctic territory “someway”, insisting that islanders didn’t see their future with the US and even Denmark.
Mute Egede rejected Trump’s expansionist ambitions to annex the sparsely populated however mineral-rich and strategically positioned island, in a partisan address to the US Congress in Washington on Tuesday.
“We do not need to be People, or Danes both. We’re Greenlanders. The People and their chief should perceive that,” Egede wrote in a Fb put up.
“We aren’t on the market and might’t simply be taken. Our future is set by us in Greenland,” he stated, six days earlier than the island’s legislative elections the place the longstanding query of independence tops the agenda.
Trump supplied solely passing traces on world affairs in his speech, specializing in his home objectives like rounding up undocumented immigrants and slashing authorities spending.
However he repeated his aspirations to take Greenland and claimed an preliminary victory on retaking management of the Panama Canal.
Trump stated he had a message for the “unimaginable individuals” of Greenland. “We strongly assist your proper to find out your personal future, and when you select, we welcome you into the US of America,” he added.
However he made clear he wouldn’t quit if persuasion fails, saying: “By some means we will get it.
“We’ll preserve you protected, we’ll make you wealthy, and collectively, we’ll take Greenland to heights like you may have by no means thought attainable earlier than.”
