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The United States will not get Greenland, Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Sunday in a post on Facebook in response to US President Donald Trump’s statements 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 in the social media post.
Trump on Saturday told NBC News he “absolutely” had real conversations about annexing the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100 per cent,” Trump said, according to NBC.
During a visit to a US military base in the north of Greenland on Friday, US Vice-President J.D. Vance accused Denmark of not doing a good job of keeping the island safe and suggested the United States would better protect the strategically located island.
Nielsen’s centre-right Demokraatit (Democrats) won the parliamentary election on March 11 following an election campaign overshadowed by Trump’s interest in Greenland. Nielsen now leads a broad coalition between Demokraatit and three other parties.
Greenland officially belongs to the kingdom of Denmark but decides on most of its political matters independently. However, foreign affairs and defence are run by the government in Copenhagen.
Independence from Denmark has been a topic for decades - and one that has been greatly stirred up by Trump’s remarks.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen plans to travel to Greenland on Wednesday with the aim of strengthening the island’s ties with Denmark. She is also scheduled to meet with Nielsen during her visit.
Frederiksen said in a statement that she has the greatest respect for the way the people of Greenland are dealing with the pressure on their country, adding that it was a situation that called for unity.
Additional reporting by dpa


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The old city of Nuuk, Greenland. Photo: Reuters

Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen. Photo: Reuters

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US Vice-President J.D. Vance and second lady Usha Vance eat a meal with soldiers at the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday. Photo: Reuters

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Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, with the domes of the Thule Tracking Station, is pictured in northern Greenland in October 2023. Photo: AFP

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