“Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people. We don’t want to be Danes, we don’t want to be Americans. We want to be Greenlanders,” Egede emphasized on Friday, according to the AP news agency.
Egede admitted that Greenland is part of the North American continent and “a place Americans consider part of their world.” He has not spoken to Trump personally, but said he is open to “discussions about what unites us.”
🇬🇱🇺🇸 Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute B. Egede, says that his people have no desire to become Americans.
However, he understands the interest President-elect Trump has in the island due to its geopolitical significance. pic.twitter.com/NaAZtpHl1B
— SVS NEWS AGENCY (@svsnewsagency) January 11, 2025
“Cooperation is about dialogue. About the fact that we will work on solutions. But the Greenlandic people will decide on the future of Greenland,” added the prime minister, who also calls for the island’s independence from Denmark.
“We long for independence and we want to be masters of our own house. This is something that everyone should respect,” Egede continued, adding that this should not mean cutting off all ties to Denmark.
Greenland with 57 thousand inhabitants was a Danish colony until 1953, but now it is largely autonomous, although it still officially belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark. The world’s largest island receives strong financial support from Copenhagen, and the Danish government also decides on Greenland’s foreign and security issues.
But many of the island’s inhabitants have long desired an independent state, which is one of the topics that plays an important role in the election campaign before the parliamentary elections in Greenland this spring.
Trump made his controversial statement about Greenland on the Truth Social social network when announcing the name of the future US ambassador to Denmark. In this context, he wrote that “for the purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world, the United States of America believes that the possession and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”
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