NUUK, Greeland (AP) — Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen mentioned Monday that he had a respectful and constructive assembly with U.S. President Donald Trump ’s particular envoy to the Arctic territory, however that he made it clear that the Greenlandic individuals proceed to insist on self-determination.
Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and Trump prior to now has often insisted that the U.S. should take control of the island for safety causes, which has raised sovereignty issues and pushback from Greenlandic and Danish leaders.
“The Greenlandic persons are not on the market. Greenlandic self-determination is just not one thing that may be negotiated,” Nielsen was quoted by Danish TV 2 as saying after assembly on the island with the envoy, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.
Nielsen additionally reiterated that the Greenlandic individuals “search good cooperation” with the U.S., and mentioned his “courtesy assembly” with Landry befell with “mutual respect and in a constructive ambiance.”
Landry reportedly mentioned upon his arrival in Greenland on Sunday that Trump had informed him to “go over there and make as many pals as we are able to get,” public Danish broadcaster DR reported.
Greenland’s International Minister Múte B. Egede informed reporters Monday {that a} working group involving the U.S., Greenland, and Denmark continues to attempt to discover a answer to the repeated U.S. demands for management over Greenland. Trump has instructed that Russia or China could also be on the verge of seizing Greenland, a notion that regional specialists have dismissed.
“We haven’t been those creating obstacles to cooperation between the USA and Greenland,” mentioned the Greenlandic overseas minister, who additionally participated within the assembly with Landry and his delegation within the Greenlandic capital of Nuuk.
“So if we’re to proceed down this constructive and constructive path, we should await the working group’s report,” he mentioned, in line with TV 2, including that the work within the group seems “extra promising” than earlier than.
U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Ken Howery, who can also be a part of the American delegation in Greenland, is anticipated to inaugurate the U.S. Consulate’s new places of work in Nuuk, and each he and Landry are to attend a enterprise truthful on Tuesday and Wednesday, native media reported.
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