“The I’LL TAKE knows perfectly the position of the Kingdom of Denmark (…) And only Denmark and Greenland can decide on a future that concerns Denmark and Greenland.” With these two phrases, expressed in a statement, the head of the Danish Government came forward, Mette Frederiksento the many unknowns that the pre-agreement announced on Wednesday by Donald Trump left over Davos. For the president of the United States, it is a pre-agreement materialized in a meeting with the secretary general of NATO, Mark Ruttea soldier more than faithful to the dictates of the White House. For Frederiksen, a coordinated process. The Danish prime minister, a social democrat with a tough profile who has repeatedly demonstrated not to be intimidated by Trump, met with Rutte in recent days. He spoke with him again after the Davos meeting between the president and his secretary general, he says. The fact that there was no Danish delegation at the Swiss summit does not mean that it was left out of this pre-agreement.
“We can negotiate politically. About security, investments and the economy. But sovereignty is not negotiable“, emphasizes Frederiksen. Denmark, a deeply Atlanticist country and apostle of rearmament European Union, is “in close dialogue” with NATO, according to its head of government. Copenhagen has long been committed to arctic securitywhich for Trump includes his anti-missile system ‘Golden Dome’ or ‘Golden Dome’one of the pillars of that pre-agreement.
That Copenhagen is not going to let itself be managed by the super-powerful was made clear yesterday by the Foreign Minister – and former Prime Minister – Lars Lokke Rasmussenshortly after Trump surprised the world with his announcement. The day “ended better than it had started,” Rasmussen explained, since the president ruled out the use of force to take over Greenland. But Trump persists in his intention to gain control over the island, which means that “the problem has not gone away”.
Greenlandic wake-up call
The conflict with the American superpower has activated a kind of Greenlandic pride until recently unknown among the population of that immense Arctic island, with 57,000 inhabitants per 2.1 million square kilometers of surface, 80% of which are under ice. NATO cannot negotiate any agreement with Trump without having this autonomous Danish territorysaid Aaja Chemnitz, one of the two deputies representing the island in the Danish Parliament, which has a total of 179 seats.
“In no way does NATO have a mandate to negotiate over Greenland,” he emphasized. Chemnitz represents the leftist Inuit Araqatigiit party, a coalition partner of the regional president. Jens-Frederik Nielsen. Above the historical or even present grievances that the Greenlandic population has suffered from Denmark, Nielsen and Frederiksen have supported cohesion against Trump’s annexationist purposes. The shared motto is that Greenland is not for sale.
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