The Prime Minister of Greenland, Jans-Frederik Nielsen, said this Tuesday that “Greenland does not want to be owned by the United States, Greenland does not want to be governed by the United States, Greenland does not want to be part of the United States. We chose the Greenland we know today, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.” The words of the president of the territory that belongs to Denmark respond to the latest salvo from Donald Trump, who has assured that “one way or another we are going to keep Greenland.”
“It has not been easy to face completely unacceptable pressure from our closest ally for a generation,” said Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who gave a press conference alongside her Greenland counterpart.
Frederiksen has put on the table what until recently seemed unacceptable among NATO countries: “Something more fundamental is at stake. The need to defend the principles of not being able to change borders by force… or buy another people. This way small countries do not have to fear big countries.”
A meeting will take place this Wednesday in Washington, at the request of Greenland and Denmark, following comments by Trump and part of his administration in which they indicated that they would take over Greenland, even without ruling out military means. On behalf of Denmark and Greenland, their Foreign Ministers, Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Vivian Motzfeldt, respectively, will participate, while on behalf of the United States, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and the Vice President, JD Vance, will attend.
Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen will also meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte next Monday to discuss “issues related to security in and around the Arctic.” He will accompany you and will also be accompanied by the head of Greenland diplomacy. Rutte has avoided criticizing the US for its annexationist position on Danish territory. This Tuesday, the Secretary General of NATO was in the European Parliament, in a session of the Renew group, in which he insisted that his “role is the defense of citizens, not to comment on debates between allies.”
The Vice President and European Commissioner for Competition, Teresa Ribera, has criticized the EU’s lukewarm position towards Trump and his foreign policy approaches, which she has defined as “the coordination of different national foreign policies together with the general visions coming from the European institutions, so it is complex. But I think this does not mean that we should remain silent or indifferent to it.” Ribera has insisted that “threats to allies based on positions that are not true are not acceptable. Greenland is not for sale.”
Source: www.eldiario.es
