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Greenland doesn’t wish to be American or Danish however unbiased, in line with the Arctic island’s prime minister on the finish of a tumultuous week following US president-elect Donald Trump’s refusal to rule out power to take management of the territory.
Múte Egede stated that “the established order just isn’t an choice” as he laid out the need of the huge and geopolitically essential island of 57,000 to have “its personal voice” by gaining independence from Denmark and turning down Trump’s makes an attempt to purchase Greenland.
“We don’t wish to be Danish, we don’t wish to be American, we wish to be Greenlandic,” he instructed a press convention.
Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen stated on the similar assembly that Greenland’s want for independence was “respectable and comprehensible” whereas calling US curiosity within the autonomous territory “constructive”.
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