Trump’s aims on Greenland –
Danish Prime Minister extends her hand to Trump
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen wants to dialogue with US President-elect Donald Trump who threatens to annex Greenland once he is installed in the White House.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
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Donald Trump, who is due to take office on January 20, sparked disbelief on Tuesday in Denmark, refusing to rule out the use of force to annex the autonomous territory of Greenland.
He made these remarks when his son Donald Trump Jr was in Greenland for a whirlwind but widely publicized visit as a “tourist”.
The president-elect had reiterated his expansionist aims at the end of 2024 by ensuring that control of Greenland was “an absolute necessity” for “the national security” of the United States and “freedom throughout the world”.
In this context, the Danish Prime Minister brought together on Thursday evening the leaders of the parties represented in the Danish parliament, as well as the two Greenlandic deputies.
“We proposed a conversation between us. I don’t think anything concrete will happen until the president-elect takes office,” she declared at the end of this meeting, from which few concrete details emerged.
She reiterated that she did not believe Donald Trump would try to seize Greenland by force. “We have no reason to believe that would happen.”
“Keep a cool head”
Greenland MP Aki-Mathilda Hoegh-Dam praised Mette Frederiksen’s “good dialogue”. “I think it’s important to keep a cool head and remember that we have … a good partnership and this doesn’t change anything,” she said.
“We don’t even know if Denmark has legal rights over it, but if it does, it has to give them up, because we need them for a matter of national security,” Donald Trump said from his residence in Florida on Tuesday, while his son finished his visit to Greenland.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is due to meet on Friday with representatives of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, another autonomous Danish territory for the biannual meeting of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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