‘Enough is enough’: Greenland rejects Trump’s conversation about download – again – National
Leaving the Prime Minister Greenland Said on Thursday that he plans to invite the leaders of all sides to the territory to issue a joint rejection of the US president Donald Trump effort to take control of the Arctic Island.
During Thursday Oval office Meeting with NATO Secretary Mark Rutte,, Trump told us control over Greenland It could be important for the reasons of national security and even suggested that NATO be included.
Asked by a journalist about Greenland now, Trump said, “I think that will happen.”
Outgoing Greenland Prime Minister Múte eged responded to Trump’s recent comments In a Facebook postWriting, “enough is enough.”
“Now the US president has once again evoked the idea of annexing us. I absolutely cannot accept it,” Egede wrote.
He said he called the leaders from all sides to gather “because this time we need to tighten our rejection of Trump.”
“Don’t treat us with disrespect,” he added.
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During his meeting on Thursday, Trump said he was sitting “with a man who could be very crucial” in helping the United States, to gain Greenland, referenced Rutte and told him that now he needs an island for “national security”.
“I think that is why NATO will have to get involved in some way because we really need Greenland for national security. That’s very important,” Trump said.
Rutte did not directly comment on Trump’s remarks about Greenland, but said he did not “want to pull NATO” into that question.
“We know things are changing there and we have to be there,” Rutte added.
After the conversation, Danish politician Rasmus Jarlov He took the social media Saying that Denmark did not “appreciate” NATO’s head “joked with Trump about Greenland.”
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“That would mean a war between two NATO countries. Greenland has just voted against immediate independence from Denmark and does not want to be an American ever,” Jarlov added.
Trump also said on Thursday that Greenland’s elections are “very good” for the United States, and “the person who made the best is a very good person, which concerns us.”
Jens-Frederik Nielsen’s Democaatit, a pro-commercial party that favors the slow path to independence, won the Greenland parliamentary elections on Tuesday.
Wednesday, Nielsen, 33, pushed back back Against Trump’s comments about grenland’s acquisition “One way or the other.”
“We don’t want to be Americans. No, we don’t want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders and we want our own independence in the future, ”Nielsen Sky News said. “And we want to build our own country ourselves.”
Trump spoke of grenland acquisition Since he took the post for the second time in January.
During His speech to the congress Earlier this month, Trump said his administration “works with anyone involved in trying to get it”, referring to his wishes to buy Greenland from Denmark, a longtime American ally.
“We strongly support your right to determine your own future, and if you decide, we greet you in the United States,” Trump said in half his 90-minute speech. “We’ll keep you safe. We will make you rich. And together we will take Greenland to heights as you never thought it was possible before.
Trump says he supports Greenland’s right to self -determination, says we will “get it one way or another”
“It’s a very small population, but a very, very large piece of land. And very, very important for military security.”
Egede, Outgoing Prime Minister Greenland, responded to Trump’s comments in his speech Congresssaying, “Kalaallite Nunaat is ours,” using Greenland for the “land of the people” or “Greenland land”.
On January 20, Trump said: “Greenland is a wonderful place, we need for international security. I am sure Denmark will come – it will cost them a lot of money to maintain it, to keep it.”
Egeda also addressed these comments in January.
“We’re Greenland,” he said. “We don’t want to be Americans. Neither do we want to be Denmark. Greenland will decide Greenland. Our country and our people will decide what is happening to Greenland. “
Trump doubles on the threats of US control in Greenland while the son visits the country
Trump doubled and said Would not turn off using force Or the economic pressure to have Greenland-Poluutononoma territory of Denmark, a longtime American ally and founder of NATO-a-part of the United States. Trump said that a matter of national security for the US
Greenland is the home of a large US military base. Trump has inserted doubts about the legitimacy of the Danish claim of Greenland.
In February, a New account introduced by the US Republican envoy Buddy Carter to give Trump to the authority to enter into negotiations if he passes the home and the Senate Denmark get Grenland and rename it.
“America has come back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of red, white and blueland,” Said Carter in a statement. “President Trump correctly identified the purchase of what Greenland is now as a priority of national security, and we will proudly greet his people to join the most commercial nation so that our main negotiator contracts this monumental agreement.”
Carter’s proposal gives the secretary of the secretary of the interior six months after a potential passage of the law to ensure an update of federal documents to reflect the new name “Red, White and Blueland”.
Trump Initially expressed his interest in Greenland in 2019 during his first term of office. He said that Greenland “was very hurt by Denmark and cost him $ 700 million a year. His solution was to have Greenland’s United States, calling him a” big real estate agreement “.
– With files from Associated Press
