Greenland Parliament to Convene Early Over U.S. Threats to Seize Arctic Island
Greenland’s parliament will bring forward a meeting to discuss its response to U.S. threats to take control of the Arctic island, the leaders of the five political parties in the Greenlandic assembly said in a joint statement.
“We emphasise once again our desire for the U.S. contempt for our country to end,” the leaders of all five political parties elected to Greenland’s parliament said in their joint statement late on Friday.
“We do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders,” they said in the statement, posted on social media by Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
A meeting of Greenland’s parliament, the Inatsisartut, will be brought forward to ensure that a fair and comprehensive political debate takes place and that the people’s rights are secured, the leaders said.
The date of the meeting has not yet been determined. Greenland’s parliament last met in November and had been scheduled to meet again on February 3, according to its website.
On Friday, Trump said he would “do something on Greenland whether they like it or not” and that the U.S. military presence in the island under a 1951 agreement with fellow NATO member Denmark is not enough to guarantee the island’s defence.
