Lars Joergen Kleist, who voted on March 11, 2025 at the polling station in Nuuk in Nuuk, as Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory, voted on the legislative elections on March 11, 2025.
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The outgoing Prime Minister of Greenland spoke on Thursday by President Donald Trump that the potential annexation of the massive Arctic island would pass through the United States.
“The US President has broadcast the idea of annexing us,” Prime Minister Mute Eggede wrote in a Facebook post.
“Do not treat us with disrespect. There is enough enough,” wrote Eggede.
The Prime Minister wrote that he plans to convene a meeting of the chairpersons of all political parties from Greenland as quickly as possible to answer Trump's comments.
“Because this time we have to tighten our rejection of Trump,” wrote Eggede.
Greenland's outgoing prime minister and head of the left Green Party Inuit Atqatigit (IA).
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The Facebook post came hours after Trump once again spoke about the idea that the USA would take over Greenland, which is currently an area of Denmark.
A reporter asked Trump: “What is your vision for the potential annexation of Greenland?”
“I think it will happen,” Trump replied during a meeting in the White House with Nato Secretary General, Mark Rutte.
Trump said the USA needed the island “for international security”.
The President then turned to Rutte and said “We'll talk to you” about the problem.
“It is really an appropriate question,” added the president.
Rutte quickly said: “When it comes to Greneland, I would do it outside, for myself, this discussion because I don't want to get NATO to it.”
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Like the United States, Denmark was a founding member of the North Atlantic contract organization, a large international alliance that was created in 1949 after the Second World War.
Denmark has checked Greenland, the world's largest island, since the 14th century.
However, Greenland has been self -managed since 1979.
On Tuesday, Pro-Business DemoCraitit Party won the Parliament's Pro-Business Democratic Party in Greenland a surprise election victory, which achieved 30% of the votes.
The party supports a gradual independence from Denmark.
On Wednesday, Democraatits leaders Jens-Frederik Nielsen Trump's reputation criticized in the past few weeks that Greenland has become a US territory.
“We don't want to be an American. No, we don't want to be Danes. We want
To be Grönlander and we want our own independence in the future, ”Nielsen told Sky News.
“And we want to build our own country ourselves.”
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