Greenland prime minister says U.S. will not get Greenland
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, leader of the Demokraatit party, participates in a TV debate in Nuuk, Greenland on March 8. Credit: AP/Evgeniy Maloletka
The prime minister of Greenland pushed back Sunday against assertions by U.S. President Donald Trump that America will take control of the island territory.
Greenland, a huge, resource-rich island in the Atlantic, is a self-governing territory of Denmark, a NATO ally of the United States. Trump wants to annex the territory, claiming it’s needed for national security purposes.
“President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future,” Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a Facebook post.
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