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I don’t like the way he talks about Greenland,
resident Ida Abelsen told the paper after mass at Nuuk Cathedral
Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.”
Danish officialIt is now time to take the next step for our country … to remove the obstacles to cooperation — which we can describe as the shackles of the colonial era — and move on.”
Last week, Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede saidThey gave hats to random people off the street, who agreed to wear the hats if they wanted some free food and free drinks. … It was all just for show,
Johnsen addedThis is a great opportunity for Greenland.”
Kuno Fencker, a member of Greenland’s parliament and its foreign affairs committee, told The PostMy mom was asking me, seriously, if I thought Trump was going to declare war against Greenland.”
Greenland University sociologist Paul Pedersen told The PostHe is already dividing people here,
Pedersen told The PostIt is the resurrection of masculine American energy,
he addedI want Greenland to stay like it is,
he addedWe know Donald Trump. He’s a politician. He’s a businessman. You shouldn’t take him literally. But you should take him seriously,
he addedIt is … Greenland that will decide what agreement we should come to,
he saidThe Danish parliament granted Greenland home rule in 1979; the law went into effect the following year. Greenland voted in favor of self-government in 2008 and acquired greater responsibility for internal affairs when the Act on Greenland Self-Government was signed into law in 2009,
the factbook adds
Washington offered $100 million in gold bullion and a land swap that would have transferred ownership of Point Barrow in Alaska over to Denmark.”
At the time, ... notes a report in Politico EuropeMidway between Moscow and New York, it’s the northernmost outpost of the US armed forces and is equipped with a missile warning system,
it saysIt's easy to imagine that Trump wants to follow in the tradition of presidents who greatly expanded their territory, like in the 19th century when the United States expanded westwards and then bought Alaska. This would be something that would define him as a truly great president."
International politics professor Thomas Jager, from the University of Cologne, told the German television network NTV
Trump's secret motivation for wanting to annex the remote Arctic isle may be more narcissistic: his Greenland-sized ego,
an unnamed former Democratic Party White House aide told the United Kingdom's Express newspaperThis is the first time Greenland has been listened to in an intense way. We need to be calm and take advantage of things and stand together."
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We are open to a dialogue with the Americans on how we can possibly cooperate even more closely to ensure that the American ambitions are fulfilled,
Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen stated— ... a response that, in its measured tone, signals the deepening seriousness with which Denmark now regards this bold shift in U.S. foreign policy
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We have been trying to get more involvement from both the EU and the US for many years now, so I think this is to some extent, I would say with some hesitance, the kind of attention we have been seeking.”
Nathanielsen told the Guardian
In my everyday life as a minister for natural resources in Greenland I get a lot of attention from foreign press … I hardly ever speak to Danish press,
she said