We should no longer allow us to treat us without respect, enough of this – said the Prime Minister of Greenland Mute B. Egede. Earlier, US President Donald Trump once again talked about the possibility of annexation of the island and suggested that NATO could help in this.
Egeded announced a meeting of political party leaders to prepare a response to the president's last statement USA. “We have to oppose Trump even more,” Egeded wrote on Facebook.
Donald Trump During the Thursday meeting with the Secretary General NATO Marek Rutt He was asked if he was going to annex Greenland. “I think this will happen,” he replied President of the United States. He turned to Rutte and said he was sitting with a man who could be very helpful. ” – You know Marek, we need her for international security – he added.
“We will decide on our future ourselves”
Last week, the head of the Greenland government wrote: “We don't want to be Americans or Danes, we are Greenland and we will decide on our future. The American leader must understand this.”
Egeded, whose left -wing party AI lost parliamentary elections on Tuesday, will soon give way. The leader of the winning liberal party Democrats and the likely future Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen found Trump's last statement “inappropriate and inappropriate”. His party in the election program emphasized that Greenland is not for sale.
Nielsen in an interview with the Greenland newspaper “Sermitsiaq” said that in relations with the US you should remain calm. Democrats are in favor of the island's independence from Denmarkbut only after reaching economic independence.
Source of the main photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/EPA