Copenhagen, Mar 28 (EFE). – Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Sunday that the United States “will not get” in response to President Donald Trump’s latest declarations about the island.
“President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future,” Nielsen said in a Facebook post.
The PM’s post comes a day after the US president told NBC News that military force isn’t off the table to acquire Greenland.
“We must not react with fear. We must respond with calm, dignity, and unity. And it is through these values that we must clearly and calmly show the President of the United States that Greenland is ours,” The PM said.
“That was yesterday. That is how it is today. And that will continue to be the case in the future,” added Nielsen, whose liberal Demokraatit party won the Mar. 11 autonomous elections with almost 30%.
One of Nielsen’s first tasks will be a meeting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who will visit Greenland from Apr. 2 through 4.
It will be Frederiksen’s first trip to Greenland since Trump revived his old idea of “taking over” the island three months ago, which he has repeated several times, citing security reasons and hinting at retaliation against Copenhagen if it does not agree.
Vice President JD Vance, his wife, and other of the Trump istration visited the US base at Pittufik in the northwest of the island on Friday.
The visit came days after Usha Vance announced a visit to Nuuk (the capital) and Sisimiut, where she was to attend a dog sled race, which she canceled following criticism from the Danish and Greenlandic istrations.
At the end of his visit to Pituffik, Vance criticized Denmark for not doing a “good job” on the island, arguing that Greenlanders would be better off as part of the United States.
Frederiksen called Vance’s criticism “unfair,” while his foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said the ’s speech was “a bit inappropriate, and maybe you should also look at yourself in the mirror.” EFE
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