Greenland’s new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has said the US will not “get” control of the Arctic territory.
Trump wants to annex Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, 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,” Nielsen said in a Facebook post Sunday.
Nielsen’s post comes a day after Trump told NBC News that the US will acquire Greenland, using military force if necessary.
“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%” Trump said arguing that while there’s a “good possibility that we could do it without military force…I don’t take anything off the table.”
Greenlanders and Danish leaders have rejected Trump’s repeated calls for the US to take control of the island.
Despite Trump’s repeated push, Nielsen said Greenlanders “must not act out of fear” but must respond to Trump’s remarks with “peace, dignity and unity”.
“And it is through these values that we must clearly and calmly show the American president that Greenland is ours,” he wrote.
“It was like that yesterday. That’s how it is today. And that’s how it will be in the future.”
