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02.18 CET
Danish MP
says deal Trump claims to have struck over Greenland is 'definitely not a deal'
In an
interview with Sky News on Wednesday, a member of Denmark’s parliament, Sascha
Faxe, has suggested that the deal Donald Trump claims to have struck with Nato
over Greenland is “not real”.
“The
thing is, there can’t be a deal without having Greenland as part of the
negotiations, first of all,” Faxe said.
She went
on to reference earlier comments from Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, a Greenlandic
member of the Danish parliament, saying: “I have heard from the Greenlanders
that I know - so we have a Greenlandic MP in Denmark – and she’s very clear
that this is not a prerogative of Rutte and Nato; they can’t trade the
underground in Greenland, or Greenlandic security without Greenlanders being
part of it.”
“And they
are very clear: Greenland is not for sale, they are not up for negotiations,”
Faxe added. “So it’s not real negotiations, it’s two men who have had a
conversation,” she said.
“It’s
definitely not a deal.”
47m ago
03.07 CET
Greenland's prime minister to hold press
conference on Thursday
As speculation continues over what, if anything,
was actually agreed in Davos on Wednesday, when Donald Trump claimed to have
emerged from a meeting on the future of Greenland with the Nato
secretary-general with “a concept of a deal”, Greenland’s prime minister,
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has scheduled a press conference for Thursday at 2pm
local time in Nuuk.
Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but
has its own parliament and government and Nielsen, who was elected to lead
Greenland last year, leads a party that favors a gradual path to independence
from Denmark.
At a news conference with Denmark’s prime
minister last week, Nielsen was very clear that the territory has no interest
in Trump’s desire to “acquire” it.
“One thing must be clear to everyone: Greenland
does not want to be owned by the US; Greenland does not want to be governed by
the US; Greenland does not want to be part of the US,” he said. “We choose the
Greenland we know today, which is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.”
On Tuesday, Nielsen warned Greenlanders that a US
military attack was unlikely but possible.
Thursday’s press conference will be held in the
Naalakkersuisut press briefing room, which seats 45 people.
2h ago
01.30 CET
Greenlandic lawmaker says Nato has no mandate to
negotiate nation's status or mineral rights
Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, a Greenlandic member of the
Danish parliament, wrote on Facebook Wednesday night that, despite Donald
Trump’s claim to have struck an agreement over her homeland with Nato, the
military alliance has no mandate to negotiate anything about Greenland.
“Nothing about us, without us,” she wrote.
Amid rumors that some sort of mineral deal might
have been discussed by Trump and Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary-general, in
Davos, Chemnitz Larsen called the idea that Nato should have anything to say
about Greenland’s sovereignty or minerals “completely out of the question.”
Chemnitz Larsen, who met last week in Copenhagen
with a bipartisan delegation of US senators, led by Chris Coons, a Delaware
Democrat, and Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, also called Trump’s recent
statements about Greenland “absolutely crazy.”
Following the meeting with the visiting US
lawmakers, the Danish newspaper Politiken reported that the Americans had
privately “expressed how terrible they felt” about Trump’s threats.
3h ago
01.00 CET
Nato leader tells Fox issue of Greenland's
sovereignty 'did not come up' in conversation with Trump
Despite Donald Trump’s claim that he struck ‘a
deal’ with Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary-general, on Wednesday, to resolve his
demand for Greenland to become part of the United States, Rutte just told Fox
News that they did not even discuss the issue of Greenland’s sovereignty.
Amid widespread speculation that Trump had simply
backed down from his threats to seize the territory by force in reaction to
panic in the stock and bond markets, Rutte was asked if the “framework deal”
meant that Greenland would still be part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
“That issue did not come up,” Rutte said, “in my
conversation tonight with the president. We very much focused on what do we
need to do to make sure that that huge Arctic region, where change is taking
place at the moment, where the Chinese and Russians are more and more active,
how we can protect it. That was really the focus of our discussions.”
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