Will the annexation of Greenland by the United States end up “arriving”? This is at least what Donald Trump repeated, Thursday, March 13, recalling that the attachment of the Danish autonomous territory to the American territory would promote “international security”. NATO chief, Mark Rutte, however present during these statements did not react. “I don’t want to mix NATO with that,” he said.
If there have been reactions, it was on the side of the countries concerned that they were heard. Indeed, faced with these expansionist inclinations, Denmark opposed an end of inadmissibility on Friday to the words of the American president. “Whether in view of the NATO treaty, the Charter of the United Nations or international law, Greenland is not open to annexation,” said Foreign Minister Lars Lars Løkke Rasmussen to the press.
For his part, the interim Prime Minister of Greenland – whose party was beaten in the local elections on Tuesday – announced to bring together “as soon as possible” the leaders of parties. “This time, we must harden our rejection of Trump. We should not continue to disrespect ourselves,” said on Facebook Mute Egede.
“We must remain united in such situations”
During these last elections, independence from Denmark and Donald Trump’s words were at the center of concerns. The Greenlanders brought a center-right party to power, democrats, favorable to the independence of the territory but not to attachment to the United States.
“I do not see any indication in the Greenlandic elections that people want to leave the kingdom to become Americans,” said Lars Løkke following the ballot.
On the Arctic Island, the winner of the legislative elections, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, probable future head of the Groenlandian government, described the words of Donald Trump as “displaced”. “Trump’s statements from the United States are moved and show again that we have to remain united in such situations,” he said on Facebook.