Greenland's Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede firmly stated that Greenland will not be bought by the US, responding to President Trump's comments about acquiring the territory. Egede emphasized Greenland's autonomy and self-determination,
In his address to Congress Tuesday night, Trump gave conflicting messages to the citizens of Greenland. While he claimed to “strongly support” Greenlanders’ “right to determine [their] own future,” and promised to keep them safe and make them rich, the president also restated that the U.S. would succeed in acquiring the territory.
Greenland's leader has told Donald Trump his land can't be take or bought after the president told Congress the US would get the territory ‘one way or another’.
Múte Bourup Egede declared that “Greenland is ours” and cannot be taken or bought in defiance of a message from US President Donald Trump, who said the United States will acquire the territory “one way or another” even though his administration supports the island’s right of self-determination.
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