The US president, Donald Trump, insisted this Thursday that Groenlandia is essential for the national security of his country and said that Washington The annexation of the Danish autonomous territory must achieve.
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When asked about the possible annexation of the island, Trump insisted that he believes “that will happen”, and remarked that annexation would also be positive for “international security.”
“I am sitting with a man who could be instrumental,” said the US president while pointing Routte.
The NATO general secretary stated that he is not responsible for being in the conversations about whether Greenland becomes part of the US or not, but Trump gave the reason regarding his concern about the strategic importance of the Arctic.
“When it comes to the Alto Norte and the Arctic, he is right,” Routte explained, remembering the presence of the Russian army in a region on which China also exhibits a growing interest in its strategic importance.
Rutte highlighted the current lack of breeding ships both for the Danish and American part, which complicates maritime traffic through the waters of the waters Arctic, to which Trump replied saying that his government He will commission 48 new ships of this type and that Canada has shown interest in using them.
Rutte, on the other hand, estimated “fundamental” for the safety of the region that has collaboration “under the protection of Europe” from the seven countries, excluding Russia, who share Arctic waters (USA, Canada, Islandia, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) and Trump considered that “NATO could have to get involved in some way“To solve the problem of possible annexation.
The US president also considered that the leader of the Demokraatit party, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, whose training was imposed yesterday in the general elections held in Greenland “is a very good person in what is concerned.”
Demokraatit, which was the winning sopride and supposes the rupture of Greenland with traditional parties, supports the idea of building a solid process without a defined date for a hypothetical separation of Denmark.
