LONDON (AP) — All 5 events in Greenland’s parliament issued a joint assertion on Friday rejecting President Donald Trump’s newest effort to take management of the strategic Arctic island.
The assertion was issued by the leaders of all 5 events that gained seats in parliament in an election held earlier this week.
“We — all celebration chairmen — can’t settle for the repeated statements on annexation and management of Greenland,” the assertion mentioned. “We, as celebration chairmen, discover this conduct unacceptable to associates and allies in a protection alliance.”
Greenland is a self-governing area of Denmark, a NATO ally of the USA.
The celebration leaders launched their assertion after Trump reiterated his need to take management of Greenland, which guards strategic air and sea routes by the Arctic.
Throughout a press convention with NATO Secretary-Normal Mark Rutte on Thursday, Trump was requested about his imaginative and prescient for annexing Greenland.
“Properly, I feel it’ll occur,” Trump responded.
He added “we’ve been coping with Denmark. We’ve been coping with Greenland. And we’ve to do it. We actually want it for nationwide safety.”
Trump reminded his viewers that the U.S. already has army bases in Greenland.
“Perhaps you’ll see increasingly more troopers go there,” he mentioned. “I don’t know.”
Greenland Prime Minister Mute B. Egede was much more outspoken than his parliamentary colleagues in rejecting Trump’s feedback.
“Our nation won’t ever be the USA, and we Greenlanders won’t ever be Individuals,” he mentioned on Fb. “Greenland is one nation. We’re united.”
