The Prime Minister of Greenland, Múte Bourup Egede, reaffirmed on Wednesday that Groenland cannot be purchased, in response to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who said that the United States would acquire the territory “in one way or another” during his speech to Congress on Tuesday in Washington.
“The Kalallit Nunat is our language”, Egede He wrote on Facebookusing Greenland for the “land of people” or the “land of the Greenlandés”.
“We do not want to be Americans, or Danish; We are Kalallit (Greenlandés). Americans and their leader must understand that. We are not on sale and we cannot simply be taken. Our future will be decided by us in Greenland, ”he added in his position, a week before Groenland is aimed at the polls for parliamentary elections.
Egede's comments occur after Trump said the United States had “a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland” while heading to a joint session of Congress in a televised speech on Tuesday.
“We firmly support your right to determine your own future, and if you wish, we welcome you to the United States of America,” Trump told half of his 90 -minute speech. “We will keep you safe. We will make you rich. And together we will bring Greenland to heights as never before possible. “
Trump also said that his administration was “working with everyone involved to try to obtain it”, referring to his wishes to acquire Greenland of Denmark, an American ally for a long time.
“We really need it for international world security. And I think we are going to get it. In one way or another, we will get it, ”said Trump.
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“It is a very small population, but a piece of land very, very large. And very, very important for military security. “
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen asked Trump's latest comments on Wednesday, he did not believe that Groenlanders would like to separate from Denmark to become “an integrated part of the United States.”
Løkke said he believed that Trump's reference to respect the right of Greenlanders' self -determination was “the most important part of that speech.”
“I am very optimistic about what will be a decision of Greenland about this. They want to loosen their ties with Denmark, we are working on that, to have a more egalitarian relationship, “Løkke said during a trip to Finland, and added that it was important that the parliamentary elections of next week be free and fair” without any international intervention. “
Trump has been talking about the acquisition of Greenland since he assumed the position for the second time in January. When journalists asked him about Greenland on January 20, Trump said: “Greenland is a wonderful place, we need it for international security. I am sure that Denmark will come, it is costing a lot of money to keep it, keep it. “
Egede addressed Trump's comments in January, saying: “We are Groenlanders. We don't want to be Americans. Nor do we want to be Danish. Greenland's future will be decided by Greenland. Our country and our people will decide what happens to Greenland. ”
Trump doubled and said he would not rule out the use of strength or economic pressure to make Greenland, a semi -autonomous territory of Denmark, part of the United States. Trump said it was a matter of national security for the United States.
“We need Greenland for national security purposes,” Trump told journalists on January 7.
Groenland, home to a large American military base, is an autonomous territory of Denmark, an American ally for a long time and a NATO founding member. Trump showed doubts about the legitimacy of Denmark's claim to Greenland.
When heading to Trump's comments in an interview with the Danish TV2 station, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the “most important and closest ally” of the United States, and said he did not believe that the United States would use military or economic power to ensure control over Groenland.
Frederiksen repeated that he welcomed the United States to have a greater interest in the Arctic region, but that “it would have to be done in a way that is respectful of the Greenlandic people,” he said.
“At the same time, it must be done in a way that allows Denmark and the United States still cooperate in, among other things, in NATO,” Frederiksen said.
In February, the US Republican representative UU. Buddy Carter, Buddy Carter, presented a new bill that, if approved the camera and the Senate, would give Trump the power to enter negotiations with Denmark to acquire Greenland and change it.
“The United States has returned and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of red, white and blue,” Carter said in a statement. “President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome his people to unite the freer nation to have existed when our chief negotiator assaulted this monumental treatment.”
Carter's proposal offers the Office of the Secretary of the Interior six months after the possible approval of the bill to ensure that federal documents are updated to reflect the new name of “Red, White and Blueland”.
Trump initially expressed interest in Greenland in 2019 during his first term in office. He said that Greenland was “hurting Denmark very badly” and that it cost US $ 700 million a year. Its solution was to make the United States acquire Greenland, calling it “a great real estate agreement.”
– With Associated Press files
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