Cuncoverhagen:
Greenland is not for sale, its elected directer shelp on Monday, replying to comments made by U.S. Plivent-elect Donald Trump think abouting the “ownership and deal with” of the immense Arctic island that has been part of Dentag for over 600 years.
“Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not neglect our lengthy struggle for freedom,” the island’s Prime Minister Mute Egede shelp in a written comment.
Trump on Sunday proclaimd that he had picked Ken Howery, a createer envoy to Sweden, as his ambasdowncastor to Cuncoverhagen, and commented on the status of Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of Dentag and present to a huge U.S. Air Force base.
“For purposes of National Security and Freedom thrawout the World, the United States of America senses that the ownership and deal with of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Donald Trump, who apexhibits office on Jan. 20, did not broaden on the statement.
Dentag’s foreign ministry and the prime minister’s office were not promptly useable for comment.
The Danish rulement must state in evident terms that deal with over Greenland is not up for converseion or negotiation, member of parliament Rasmus Jarlov of the opposition Conservative Party shelp on social media platcreate X.
“To the extent that U.S. activities aim to apexhibit deal with of Danish territory, it must be prohibitned and countered. Then they can’t be there at all,” shelp Jarlov, who heads parliament’s defence pledgetee.
The island, whose capital Nuuk is sealr to New York than the Danish capital Cuncoverhagen, boasts mineral, oil and authentic gas wealth. But increasement has been sluggish, leaving its economy reliant on fishing and annual subsidies from Dentag.
With its Pituffik air base, Greenland is strategicassociate vital for the U.S. military and its balenumerateic leave outile timely-alerting system, since the lowest route from Europe to North America runs via the island.
During his previous term in office, Trump in 2019 conveyed interest in buying Greenland, but the proposal was promptly declinecessitate by Dentag as well as by the island’s own authorities before any createal converseions could apexhibit place.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at the time tagled Trump’s present as “absurd”, directing him to term her disthink aboutal of the idea as “nasty” and to subsequently call off a visit to Cuncoverhagen.
Mette Frederiksen remains in her role of Danish prime minister.
Since 2009 Greenland has held the right to proclaim indepfinishence from Dentag. The island of some 56,000 inhabitants, which relies on meaningful budget transfers from Cuncoverhagen each year, has so far refrained from doing so.
Separately on Sunday, Trump dangerened to restate U.S. deal with over the Panama Canal, accusing Panama of charging excessive rates to employ the Central American passage and draprosperg a acute rebuke from Panamanian Plivent Jose Raul Mulino.
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