Denmark ready to defend Greenland
Greenland should be controlled by the US, Donald Trump said last night.
Now Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says that Denmark is prepared to defend Greenland.
The statement from the Danish Prime Minister came at the NATO summit in Ankara.
– Greenland is of course not for sale, she says according to AP.
The message is clear: the US must respect Denmark's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
– From the beginning, when this started, I have said that he is serious, the Americans are serious, and so are we. We will not change our Danish and Greenlandic position, she says according to DR.
Trump: Should be controlled by the US
US President Donald Trump yesterday once again expressed a demand for control over Greenland. He threatened to withdraw US armed forces from Europe after repeated protests, according to The Guardian. He says that the row over Greenland has damaged his relationship with NATO.
Frederiksen says that she has not spoken to Donald Trump about the matter but says that she is “unfortunately not surprised” by his statement.
Both she and Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir state that NATO does not need internal disputes but unity against external threats. And the threat now is Russia.
The relationship between the US and Greenland and Denmark respectively is tense since Trump has on several occasions expressed demands to take control of Greenland, which is part of the Danish kingdom.
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