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The Prime Minister of Greenland intervened on President-elect Trump’s acquisition proposal the island territory, arguing that the nation intends to continue working towards independence from Denmark.
“We don’t want to be Danish,” Mute Egede told Fox News anchor Bret Baier in an interview Thursday. “We don’t even want to be Americans. We want to be Greenlanders.”
Trump’s recent blows to the country have done it didn’t land well with foreign citizens or leaders.
“We will always be part of NATO. We will always be a strong partner of the US,” Egede continued. “We are close neighbors. We have joined in the last 80 years. And I think the future has a lot to offer, to cooperate with.”
“But we also want to be clear, we don’t want to be American,” he said. “We don’t want to be part of the US, but we want strong cooperation together with the US.”
The Prime Minister added that maintaining an American military presence in the region is part of this cooperation.
“It’s a very important military base, especially for all of us on the North American continent, and especially for your national security, and your national security is our security,” he told Baier, but clarified that the region arctic works a little differently.
“We are open to discussing … how to defend our country, your country, the entire Arctic, all American countries and all Western Alliances,” Egede said.
His comments come just days after the president-elect he was talking on the phone with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. On the call, Frederiksen said the choice ultimately it depends on Greenland.
Trump in recent days has argued that owning the island “is an absolute necessity” and has done so don’t knock the idea down of using military action to acquire it. The rhetoric of expansion, including the president-elect’s suggestion that the USA annexed to Canada and the Panama Canal, has sparked a debate on how to take the incoming president seriously.
