Greenland Leaders Have Blunt Words For Donald Trump | EUROtoday

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland’s get together leaders have rejected President Donald Trump’s repeated requires the U.S. to take management of the island, saying that Greenland’s future have to be determined by its individuals.

“We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders,” Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and 4 get together leaders stated in a press release Friday evening.

Trump stated once more on Friday that he wish to make a deal to accumulate Greenland, a semiautonomous area that’s a part of NATO ally Denmark, “the easy way.” He stated that if the U.S. doesn’t personal it, then Russia or China will take it over, and the U.S. doesn’t need them as neighbors.

“If we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way,” Trump stated, with out explaining what that entailed. The White House stated it’s contemplating a variety of choices, together with utilizing navy pressure, to accumulate the island.

Greenland’s get together leaders reiterated that “Greenland’s future must be decided by the Greenlandic people.”

“As Greenlandic party leaders, we would like to emphasize once again our wish that the United States’ contempt for our country ends,” the assertion stated.

Officials from Denmark, Greenland and the United States met Thursday in Washington and can meet once more subsequent week to debate the renewed push by the White House for the management of the island.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that an American takeover of Greenland would mark the tip of NATO.

The get together leaders’ assertion stated that “the work on Greenland’s future takes place in dialogue with the Greenlandic people and is prepared on the basis of international laws.”

“No other country can interfere in this,” they stated. “We must decide the future of our country ourselves, without pressure for quick decision, delay or interference from other countries.”

The assertion was signed by Nielsen, Pele Broberg, Múte B. Egede, Aleqa Hammond and Aqqalu C. Jerimiassen.

While Greenland is the biggest island on the planet, it has a inhabitants of round 57,000 and doesn’t have its personal navy. Defense is supplied by Denmark, whose navy is dwarfed by that of the U.S.

It’s unclear how the remaining NATO members would reply if the U.S. determined to forcibly take management of the island or if they might come to Denmark’s support.