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Wednesday December 25, 2024

Not for sale. Greenland shrugs off Trump’s new push

By AFP
December 24, 2024
A combination of images shows United States President Donald Trump (left) and Greenlands Prime Minister Mute Egede. — Reuters/File
A combination of images shows United States President Donald Trump (left) and Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede. — Reuters/File

COPENHAGEN: Greenland on Monday stressed that it was not for sale, after Donald Trump again suggested he wanted the United States to take control of the strategic island that holds major mineral and oil reserves.

Greenland´s Prime Minister Mute Egede quickly sought to quash any chance of a deal. “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom,” Mute Egede said in a statement. Greenland, the world´s largest island, is an autonomous Danish territory with its own parliament, about 55,000 inhabitants.