The United States will not get Greenland, newly elected Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Sunday in a Facebook post in response to Donald Trump's statements he wants to take control of the vast Arctic country. Trump said he had "absolutely" had real conversations about annexing the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
30/03/2025
By FRANCE 24
Leader of Greenland's centre-right Demokraatit party Jens Frederik Nielsen talks to journalists during a march to the US consulate during a demonstration on March 15, 2025. © Christian Klindt, AFPGreenland will decide its own future and the autonomous Danish territory will not become part of the United States, its new prime minister said on Sunday, responding to Donald Trump's latest comments about wanting the resource-rich island.
"President Trump says the United States 'will get Greenland.' Let me be clear: The United States will not get Greenland. We don't belong to anyone else. We decide our own future," Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a Facebook post.
"We'll get Greenland. Yeah, 100 percent", Trump said on Saturday in an interview with NBC News. He told interviewer Kristen Walker that he had "absolutely" had real conversations about annexing the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
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This latest exchange culminates a week of heightened tensions between the United States, Denmark, and Greenland, marked by Vice President JD Vance's visit to a US military base on the vast Arctic island.
Danish diplomacy on Saturday criticised Vance's "tone", after he said Denmark "has not done a good job by the people of Greenland".
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will be in Greenland from Wednesday to Friday to "strengthen unity" between the kingdom and its Arctic territory.
Four of the five parties represented in the Greenlandic Parliament reached an agreement on Friday to form a coalition government.
Greenland's main parties all want independence, but they disagree on the roadmap. American pressure convinced them to form a coalition as quickly as possible with only the Naleraq party, which advocates rapid independence, declining to join.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP and Reuters)
This latest exchange culminates a week of heightened tensions between the United States, Denmark, and Greenland, marked by Vice President JD Vance's visit to a US military base on the vast Arctic island.
Danish diplomacy on Saturday criticised Vance's "tone", after he said Denmark "has not done a good job by the people of Greenland".
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will be in Greenland from Wednesday to Friday to "strengthen unity" between the kingdom and its Arctic territory.
Four of the five parties represented in the Greenlandic Parliament reached an agreement on Friday to form a coalition government.
Greenland's main parties all want independence, but they disagree on the roadmap. American pressure convinced them to form a coalition as quickly as possible with only the Naleraq party, which advocates rapid independence, declining to join.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP and Reuters)
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