Greenland tells Trump it is not for sale

Greenland has as soon as once more stated it isn’t on the market after US President-elect Donald Trump stated he needed to take management of the territory.

“Greenland belongs to the individuals of Greenland,” its prime minister stated on Monday, a day after Trump repeated feedback in regards to the Arctic island that he first made a number of years in the past.

Greenland, which is an autonomous Danish territory, is dwelling to a big US house facility and lies on the shortest route from the US to Europe, which means it’s strategically necessary for America.

There was no rapid response to Trump’s feedback from Denmark.

Writing on his social media platform, Reality Social, on Sunday, the US president-elect stated: “For functions of Nationwide Safety and Freedom all through the World, america of America feels that the possession and management of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”

His feedback prompted a pointy rebuke from Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede, who stated: “We’re not on the market and we is not going to be on the market.”

“We should not lose our lengthy wrestle for freedom. Nonetheless, we should proceed to be open to co-operation and commerce with the entire world, particularly with our neighbours,” he stated.

Trump’s controversial remarks got here hours after he introduced that he meant to appoint Ken Howery, his former ambassador to Sweden, to be the brand new ambassador to Denmark.

Mr Howery stated he was “deeply humbled” by the nomination and appeared ahead to working with the employees on the US embassy in Copenhagen and the US consulate in Greenland to “deepen the bonds between our international locations”.

Trump’s unique suggestion in 2019 that the US purchase Greenland, which is the world’s largest island, led to a equally sharp rebuke from leaders there.

The then Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredericksen, who nonetheless holds the function, described the concept as “absurd”, main Trump to cancel a state journey to the nation.

He isn’t the primary US president to counsel shopping for Greenland. The concept was first mooted throughout the 1860s below the presidency of Andrew Johnson.

Individually on Sunday, Donald Trump threatened to reassert management over the Panama Canal, one of many world’s most necessary waterways – accusing Panama of charging extreme charges for entry to it.

Panama’s president later stated “each sq. metre” of the canal and surrounding space belonged to his nation.