31 March 2025 - Greenland prime minister says US will not get Greenland
Greenland prime minister says US will not get Greenland
The Associated Press (AP News, 31/03/2025)
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.
Greenland’s new PM rejects Trump’s latest threat: ‘We do not belong to anyone else’
Staff and agencies (The Guardian, 31/03/2025)
The US will not get Greenland, its new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has said in response to Donald Trump’s latest statements that he wants to take control of the vast Arctic country. “President Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: the United States won’t get that. We do not belong to anyone else. We determine our own future,” Nielsen said.
Why does the US want Greenland? Here's what we know
Yiying Li (ABC, 28/02/2025)
It is no secret that Donald Trump has desires to take over Greenland. A US delegation's planned visit to the Arctic territory this week has put Mr Trump's ambitions back in the spotlight, with Greenland's outgoing Prime Minister Mute Egede calling the trip a "provocation". US Vice-President JD Vance is set to visit the US military base at Pituffik in northern Greenland on Friday. However, an earlier plan for his wife Usha to visit a popular dog-sled race was called off amid local protests.
Here's why the US is picking a fight with Denmark over Greenland — and what Greenland thinks about it
John L. Dorman (Yahoo News, 31/03/2025)
Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, arrived in Greenland on Friday, embarking on a scaled-back trip that included a stop at the US-operated Pituffik Space Base on the island's northwest coast. But even before the US delegation arrived, they were met with broad opposition to Trump's annexation plans. Here's why the United States has shown so much interest in Greenland amid the territory's own push for independence.
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