Trump nonetheless seeks to manage Greenland, PM warns

[ad_1] Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen warned on Monday that whereas US President Donald Trump has dominated out navy drive, Washington nonetheless essentially seeks to manage the Arctic island.

Trump intensified requires US management over Greenland in the beginning of the 12 months, citing nationwide safety considerations associated to Russia and China. Some European NATO allies have defended Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland and stated Trump’s stress threatened to fracture the NATO alliance.

The US president has since backed away from threats of drive and stated he had secured complete US entry to Greenland in a NATO deal, although particulars stay unclear.

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Affecting Greenlanders’ psychological well being “The view upon Greenland and the inhabitants has not modified: Greenland is to be tied to the US and ruled from there,” Nielsen stated in a speech to the island’s parliament in Nuuk, talking through a translator.

Nielsen stated the US continues searching for “paths to possession and management over Greenland”.

The island’s authorities stated final week it had launched a survey of the inhabitants’s psychological well being scenario at a time of extraordinary stress.

“A few of our compatriots have extreme sleep issues, kids really feel the fear and nervousness of adults, and all of us stay with fixed uncertainty about what could occur tomorrow,” Nielsen stated. “We need to say it very clearly: That is fully unacceptable”.

Clashes with cultural values Diplomatic talks between the US, Denmark and Greenland started final week with senior officers assembly to “focus on how we are able to tackle American considerations about safety within the Arctic whereas respecting the Kingdom’s crimson strains”, Denmark’s international ministry stated.

Nielsen additionally praised Denmark as an in depth associate all through the disaster.

He has beforehand said that if Greenlanders have been compelled to decide on between the US and Denmark, they'd select Denmark. The speech made no point out of independence for Greenland.

For Greenland’s Inuit native inhabitants, the controversy over possession clashes with cultural values. Beneath Greenlandic regulation, individuals can personal homes however not the land beneath them, reflecting the Inuit idea of collective land stewardship.