LYNGBY, Denmark– New Greenlandic Head Of State Jens-Frederik Nielsen claimed Sunday that united state declarations concerning the mineral-rich Arctic island have actually been rude which Greenland “will certainly never ever, ever before be an item of residential property that can be purchased by simply any person.”
Nielsen made the statements despite united state Head of state Donald Trump’s rate of interest in taking control of the calculated region as Nielsen stood side-by-side with Danish Head of state Mette Frederiksen on the 2nd day of a three-day main check out. Greenland is a semi-autonomous region of Denmark.
” The talks from the USA have actually not been considerate,” Nielsen claimed at a press conference at the head of state’s Marienborg palace in Lyngby, 12 kilometers (8 miles) north of Copenhagen.
” Words made use of have not be considerate. That’s why we require in this circumstance, we require to stand with each other,” he included.
Political events in Greenland, which has actually been favoring ultimate freedom from Denmark for many years, lately consented to develop a broad-based brand-new union federal government despite Trump’s styles on the region.
Greenland’s federal government claimed that Nielsen’s three-day check out, which started Saturday, was targeted at future participation in between both nations.
” Denmark has the will to buy the Greenlandic culture, and we do not simply have that for historic factors. We additionally have that due to the fact that we become part of (the Danish) republic with each various other,” claimed Frederiksen.
” We certainly have a will to additionally proceed purchasing the Greenlandic culture,” she included.
Nielsen is readied to satisfy King Frederik X on Monday, prior to going back to Greenland with Frederik for an imperial browse through to the island.
Frederiksen and Nielsen were asked whether a conference in between them and Trump was being intended.
” We constantly intend to consult with the American head of state,” Frederiksen claimed. “Certainly we intend to. Yet I assume we have actually been really, really clear in what is the (Danish republic’s) technique to all components of the Kingdom of Denmark.”
