A cautious step towards Donald Trump. Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede said on Monday, January 13, that the Danish autonomous territory was willing to have closer relations with the United States, particularly with regard to regions where untapped mineral resources are found, and that he was looking for “opportunities for cooperation with Trump”.
The US president-elect, who takes office on January 20, caused an earthquake last week when he refused to rule out military intervention to bring the Panama Canal and Greenland under US control. Vice President-elect JD Vance, for his part, told Fox News that the United States did not need to use military force, noting that it already had troops in Greenland.
Purchasing desires from 2019
During a press conference this Monday, the Prime Minister of Greenland Mute Egede showed himself open to closer ties with the United States, a few days after Trump's shock outings. “We have to do business with the United States. We started to enter into a dialogue and search opportunities for cooperation with Trump», Egede pointed out. The territory has “its doors open when it comes to mining. It will be the same in the years to come. We must trade with the United States.
Greenland, which aspires to its independence from Denmark, arouses desire for its natural resources – although oil prospecting and uranium exploitation are prohibited there – and for its geostrategic importance – which explains why the United States have a military base there. Donald Trump first said he wanted to buy Greenland in 2019 during his first presidential term, a proposal that was resolutely rejected by Greenland and Denmark.
During a visit to Denmark last week, Egede ruled that the territory “was entering a new era, a new era where Greenland is at the center of the world.” He stipulated that his country would continue to cooperate with the United States, while emphasizing that it would be on its own terms and that it was “the Greenlandic people who decided their future”.
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