₦airaland Forum

🇬🇱 Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte B. Egede pushed back against speculation the island could be up for grabs, after 🇺🇸 United States President Donald Trump’s renewed fixation on acquiring it this week sparked a political storm.

“We don’t want to be Americans. We don’t want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders,” he told reporters on Friday following a lengthy meeting in Copenhagen with Danish commonwealth leaders.

Last week, Trump sent shockwaves across Europe when he refused to rule out using military force to annex the world’s largest island, an autonomous territory of 57,000 people that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

When asked if he had spoken with the U.S. President, Egede said “no, but we are ready to talk,” echoing Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s statement on Thursday that she had asked to speak with Trump.

As to what shape the Danish-Greenlandic relationship might entail in the future, Egede suggested that Greenland wants to be in charge:

“There is more that unites us but the desire to be master of one’s own house is understandable to everyone in the world.”

“When I have to talk to another country’s leader, I have to be together with the Danish ambassador. It’s things like these where we wish to have our own voice. That, I think, is legitimate, when one wants to build their county on those values,” Egede said.

Frederiksen, for her part, emphasized the need to stand together to have a seat at the global table, to tackle the three-fold pressures on Arctic from the U.S, China and Russia.

“What matters the most right now is getting more elbow room in foreign policy. It is something that we are looking at,” she said.

Politico

Zooposki:
Most Nigerian men will die to be American citizens, fully serving the white man like a slave. Oloriburuku men.

MadamExcellency:
Referendum is the solution. Greenland runs on subvention from Denmark and can't protect the territory from invasion. That's where the USA comes in. The deal will be done eventually.

chopnaira:
What is Trump's obsession with other people's land? Greenland people have been there for centuries since the days of the Vikings and would rather align with their Nordic brothers in Denmark and Norway.

WriterNig:
It was said that

Standing5:
I hope putin is seeing how it is done an not wiru wiru rederendum under lock and key arrangement. Arrangee referendum.

MadamExcellency:
Russia sold Alaska to the USA. Such Islands under enemy (China or Russia) control are a threat to US national security.

MadamExcellency:
Russia sold Alaska to the USA. Such Islands under enemy (China or Russia) control are a threat to US national security.

WriteerNg:
Wow! So you can make excuses for taking someones land by force?

Because it's the USA? God's chosen people right?

Iseoluwani:
This guy name sef

Correct GUYMAN

Zooposki:
Most Nigerian men will die to be American citizens, fully serving the white man like a slave. Oloriburuku men.