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Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen connected Sunday (January 4, 2025) urged U.S. President Donald Trump to halt threatening to instrumentality implicit Greenland, aft helium reiterated his privation to bash truthful in an interrogation with The Atlantic magazine.
“It makes perfectly nary consciousness to speech astir the U.S. needing to instrumentality implicit Greenland. The U.S. has nary close to annex immoderate of the 3 countries successful the Danish Kingdom,” Ms. Frederiksen said successful a connection connected Sunday (January 4).
Mr. Trump told the magazine: “We bash request Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defense.”
He spoke a time after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the president said Washington would tally the Latin American country.
This raised concerns successful Denmark that the aforesaid could hap with Greenland, a Danish territory.
Ms. Frederiksen said: “I would truthful powerfully impulse the U.S. halt the threats against a historically adjacent state and against different state and different people, who person precise intelligibly said that they are not for sale.”
The Greenlandic premier minister’s bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for remark outside regular bureau hours.
Strategically important island
Mr. Trump connected December 21 named Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry arsenic peculiar envoy to Greenland, drafting renewed disapproval from Denmark and Greenland implicit Washington’s involvement successful the mineral-rich Arctic island.
Mr. Trump has advocated for Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory, to go portion of the United States. Mr. Landry publically supports the idea.
The Arctic island’s strategical presumption betwixt Europe and North America makes it a cardinal tract for the U.S. ballistic rocket defence system, portion its mineral wealthiness is charismatic arsenic the U.S. hopes to trim its reliance connected Chinese exports.
Greenland, a erstwhile Danish colony, has the close to declare independency nether a 2009 statement but depends heavy connected Danish subsidies.
Denmark has sought to repair strained ties with Greenland implicit the past year, portion besides trying to easiness tensions with the Trump medication by investing successful Arctic defence.
