Greenland PM Reiterates ‘We Are Not for Sale’ after Trump Suggests US Ownership

THE GUARDIAN: US president-elect raises issue of control of Denmark territory five years after proposing to buy it during first term

A screenshot taken from this article in today's Guardian. | Icebergs in Baffin Bay near Pituffik, Greenland in 2022. The territory is home to a strategically important US space base. Photograph: Kerem Yücel/AFP/Getty Images
Greenland’s elected leader said the gigantic Arctic island is not for sale after Donald Trump once again raised the issue of “ownership and control” of the vast territory that has been part of Denmark for more than 600 years.

“Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom,” Greenland’s prime minister, Múte Egede, said in a written comment.

The US president-elect on Sunday announced that he had picked Ken Howery, a former envoy to Sweden, as his ambassador to Copenhagen, and commented on the status of Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of Denmark. » | Guardian staff and agencies |Monday, December 23, 2024

Donald Trump thinks everything is for sale. He thinks everything has a price. – © Mark Alexander