Denmark’s PM says Greenland showdown at ‘decisive moment’
Al Jazeera
Denmark is ready to defend its values, Mette Frederiksen says, as Trump renews threats to seize the Danish territory.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said her country faces a “decisive moment” over the future of Greenland after United States President Donald Trump renewed his threats to seize the Arctic territory by force.
Speaking ahead of meetings in Washington, DC, from Monday on the global scramble for key raw materials, Frederiksen said that “there is a conflict over Greenland”.
“This is a decisive moment”, with stakes that go beyond the immediate issue of Greenland’s future, Frederiksen said in a debate with other Danish political leaders.
She added in a post on Facebook that Denmark was ” ready to defend our values – wherever it is necessary – also in the Arctic”. “We believe in international law and in peoples’ right to self-determination,” she said.
Germany and Sweden backed Denmark against Trump’s latest claims to the self-governing Danish territory.
