Copenhagen:
Greenland will not be on the market, its elected chief stated on Monday, responding to feedback made by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump concerning the “possession and management” of the huge Arctic island that has been a part of Denmark for over 600 years.
“Greenland is ours. We are usually not on the market and can by no means be on the market. We should not lose our lengthy battle for freedom,” the island’s Prime Minister Mute Egede stated in a written remark.
Trump on Sunday introduced that he had picked Ken Howery, a former envoy to Sweden, as his ambassador to Copenhagen, and commented on the standing of Greenland, a semi-autonomous a part of Denmark and host to a big U.S. Air Force base.
“For functions of National Security and Freedom all through the World, the United States of America feels that the possession and management of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Donald Trump, who takes workplace on Jan. 20, didn’t elaborate on the assertion.
Denmark’s international ministry and the prime minister’s workplace weren’t instantly out there for remark.
The Danish authorities should state in clear phrases that management over Greenland will not be up for dialogue or negotiation, member of parliament Rasmus Jarlov of the opposition Conservative Party stated on social media platform X.
“To the extent that U.S. actions purpose to take management of Danish territory, it should be prohibited and countered. Then they cannot be there in any respect,” stated Jarlov, who heads parliament’s defence committee.
The island, whose capital Nuuk is nearer to New York than the Danish capital Copenhagen, boasts mineral, oil and pure gasoline wealth. But improvement has been sluggish, leaving its financial system reliant on fishing and annual subsidies from Denmark.
With its Pituffik air base, Greenland is strategically essential for the U.S. navy and its ballistic missile early-warning system, because the shortest route from Europe to North America runs through the island.
During his earlier time period in workplace, Trump in 2019 expressed curiosity in shopping for Greenland, however the proposal was promptly rejected by Denmark in addition to by the island’s personal authorities earlier than any formal discussions might happen.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on the time labelled Trump’s supply as “absurd”, main him to time period her dismissal of the thought as “nasty” and to subsequently cancel a go to to Copenhagen.
Mette Frederiksen stays in her position of Danish prime minister.
Since 2009 Greenland has held the precise to declare independence from Denmark. The island of some 56,000 inhabitants, which depends on vital finances transfers from Copenhagen annually, has to date kept away from doing so.
Separately on Sunday, Trump threatened to reassert U.S. management over the Panama Canal, accusing Panama of charging extreme charges to make use of the Central American passage and drawing a pointy rebuke from Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino.
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