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Outgoing Prime Minister Mute Egede says ‘disrespect’ for Greenland must stop as US president again says he wants Arctic island.

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Outgoing Prime Minister Mute Egede says ‘disrespect’ for Greenland must stop as US president again says he wants Arctic island.
US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte appear to share a joke, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]
Greenland’s outgoing Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for a stronger rejection by local politicians of United States President Donald Trump’s promise to take over the strategically-located island, warning that “enough is enough”.
“This time we need to toughen our rejection of Trump. People cannot continue to disrespect us,” Egede wrote on Facebook after Trump reiterated on Thursday his desire to annex the autonomous Danish territory.
“The American president has once again evoked the idea of annexing us. I absolutely cannot accept that,” he wrote.
“I have therefore asked the administration to summon the party heads as soon as possible,” said Egede, who continues to lead Greenland while awaiting the formation of a new government following his party’s defeat in elections on Tuesday.
Speaking earlier at the White House alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Trump doubled down on his wish to annex Greenland – an island of 57,000 people – saying: “I think it will happen.”
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Danish politician Rasmus Jarlov took to social media after the Trump meeting with Rutte, saying that Denmark did “not appreciate” the head of NATO “joking with Trump about Greenland like this”.
“It would mean war between two NATO countries,” Jarlov said.
“Greenland has just voted against immediate independence from Denmark and does not want to be American ever,” he said.
DJ, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Union or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Union Greenland left the EU in 1985. 