President Donald Trump said he believed the United States will control Greenland, after he has shown renewed interest in obtaining self -rule Danish lands in recent weeks.
“I think we will get it,” he told reporters on the journalists on the presidential plane, adding that the 57,000 people of the island “want to be with us.”
His comments come after reports that Danish Prime Minister Miti Friedrixen insisted that Greenland was not for sale in a fiery phone call to the president last week.
Trump raised the possibility of purchasing the vast North Pole lands during his first term in 2019, and said that the United States’ control over Greenland was “an absolute necessity” for international security.
“I think people want to be with us,” Trump said when asked about the island in the press room on the presidential plane.
He added: “I do not really know what Denmark demands this, but it will be a very uncomfortable work if they do not allow this to happen because in order to protect the free world.”
“I think we will get Greenland because it is a matter of freedom in the world,” Trump added.
“The United States has nothing to do with except that we can provide freedom. They cannot.”
Despite Trump’s clear confidence, Greenland Prime Minister and Denmark said that the island was not for sale.
The Prime Minister of Greenland, MiTOGIDE, said that the use of the territory of the region is “Greenland’s affairs”, although he expressed his willingness to do so. Work more closely with the United States in the field of defense and mining.
Meanwhile, Danish Prime Minister Friedrixen said earlier this month that “Greenland belongs to the inhabitants of Greenland”, and that only the local population is the ones who can determine its future.
Friedriksen reaffirmed her position during a 45 -minute hot phone conversation with Trump last week. According to a report by the Financial Times.
The newspaper quoted an unnamed European official as saying that the conversation was “horrific”, and another said that Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland was “and perhaps very dangerous.”
According to what was stated, the Danish Prime Minister insisted that the island is not for sale, but he pointed to the “great interest of the United States”.
Greenland is located on the shortest road from North America to Europe, making it of strategic importance for the United States. It is also home to a large American space facility.
In recent years, interest in natural resources in Greenland has increased, including rare ground mineral extraction, uranium and iron.
Although Al -Jazeera has widespread independence, it remains part of the Denmark Kingdom.
But there is a general consensus in Greenland that it will eventually become independent, which may pave the way for a new type of relationship with the United States.
there Several ways President Trump can follow his desire to control the area. When he was asked earlier in January whether he could exclude the use of military or economic force, Trump said he could not.
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