“We do not want to be neither American nor Danish, we are Greenlandic,” the Prime Minister of Greenland said on Wednesday March 5, in response to the new declarations of Donald Trump on his desire to attach Danish autonomous territory to the United States. “The Americans and their chef must understand this,” wrote on Facebook Mute Egede, six days before local legislative elections. “We are not for sale and we cannot just be taken,” he insisted.
On Tuesday, opposite the congress, the tenant of the White House reaffirmed his expansionist aims, saying in particular wanting to seize the Greenland “in one way or another”. “This will not happen,” said Danish Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen the next day with public television DR, highlighting a “positive” aspect of Donald Trump’s speech, the mention of the Greenlanders’ respect to decide their future.
The American president has indeed assured “to the incredible people of Greenland” support “firmly [son] right to determine [son] Clean future “.” If you wish, we welcome you to the United States of America, “he added.
However, he said it wanted to annex this Danish autonomous territory “in one way or another”. “We really need it for international security and I think we will get it. In one way or another, we will get it,” he said in this first general policy speech since his return to power on January 20. “We will ensure your safety, we will make you rich and, together, we will lead Greenland to peaks that you would never have imagined possible,” he said.
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Elections on March 11
Greenland has been under the spotlight since the end of December and the repeated wish of Donald Trump to integrate the largest Arctic island in the United States. Legislative elections are scheduled for March 11. “Elections will soon take place in Greenland and I think everyone – including ourselves – must be careful not to make all kinds of assumptions about the future” of the Greenlanders, said Danish diplomacy Lars Lars Lars Lars Rasmussen on TV2 television on Wednesday.
In the same vein, Donald Trump reiterated his ambitions on Tuesday concerning the Panama Canal, the same day of the announcement that two ports held by the Hong Kong giant Hutchison will be ceded to an American consortium. “To further strengthen our national security, my administration will take over the Panama canal, and we have already started to do so,” he said, referring to this agreement. Donald Trump threatened to resume the channel from the day of his inauguration on the grounds that he said, he said, operated by China.