Chairman of Naalakkersuisut in Greenland Mute B Egede holds a press convention with Denmark’s Prime Minister in Copenhagen, Jan. 10, amid the present remarks of the US president-elect. AFP-Yonhap
Greenland’s prime minister on Monday stated that the Danish autonomous territory was open to nearer ties with the US, in areas similar to mining, a Greenlandic broadcaster reported.
Nonetheless, Mute Egede didn’t give any indication that the island can be open to a U.S. takeover.
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, who takes workplace on January 20, set off alarm bells final week when he refused to rule out navy intervention to convey the Panama Canal and Greenland beneath U.S. management.
Vice President-elect JD Vance, in an interview with broadcaster Fox Information over the weekend, famous that the US already has „troops in Greenland“, at a navy base within the northwest.
Egede on Monday stated that the territory was open to even nearer ties with the US, Greenlandic public broadcaster KNR reported.
„We have to do enterprise with the U.S. We now have begun to start out a dialogue and search alternatives for cooperation with Trump,“ Egede stated at a press convention in Greenland.
The Greenlandic head of presidency added that the territory had its „doorways open when it comes to mining“.
„Will probably be the identical within the coming years. We now have to commerce with the U.S.,“ he stated, based on KNR.
Along with its strategic location, Greenland, which is searching for independence from Denmark, holds huge untapped mineral and oil reserves, though oil and uranium exploration are banned.
Trump first claimed that he wished to purchase Greenland in 2019 throughout his first time period as president — a suggestion swiftly rebuffed by Greenland and Denmark.
Throughout a go to to Denmark final week, Egede stated that the Arctic territory was „getting into a brand new period, in a brand new yr the place Greenland is within the middle of the world“.
He stated that Greenland would proceed to cooperate with the US, however pressured that this might be by itself phrases and that it was „the Greenlandic individuals who resolve their future“.
„We do not wish to be Danes. We do not wish to be People. In fact, we wish to be Greenlanders,“ he stated. (AFP)
