“RED LINE”
Denmark and Greenland have harassed that sovereignty and territorial integrity could be a “pink line” within the talks.
Nielsen mentioned on Thursday he was not conscious of the contents of the Trump-Rutte talks however insisted no deal could possibly be made with out involving Nuuk.
“No person else than Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark have the mandate to make offers or agreements,” he informed reporters.
Frederiksen has repeatedly mentioned the identical factor.
A Danish colony for 3 centuries, Greenland, which has round 57,000 inhabitants, steadily gained autonomy within the second half of the twentieth century and obtained self-rule in 2009.
However Denmark’s assimilation insurance policies – together with de facto bans on the Inuit language and compelled sterilisations – have left Greenlanders bitter and indignant.
Whereas an awesome majority of the island’s inhabitants help a decades-long drive for full independence, Trump’s threats over the previous yr have led to a warming of ties between Denmark and Greenland.
“Greenlanders nonetheless have loads of grievances regarding Denmark’s lack of means to rethink its colonial previous,” Ulrik Pram Gad, a researcher on the Danish Institute for Worldwide Research, informed AFP.
“However Trump’s strain has prompted the vast majority of the (Greenlandic) political spectrum … to place the independence preparations – all the time a long-term challenge – apart for now.”
