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korea “Greenland is not for sale” and holding numerous banners with slogans such as “Hands off Greenland”thousands of Danes demonstrated this Saturday in the streets of some of their main cities, such as Copenhagen, to demonstrate against the numerous threats received in recent weeks from Donald Trump to annex the Arctic island.
As a result of these demonstrations, they demand that the United States respect the Greenlanders’ right to self-determination. Although, the American president has stated that possessing Greenland is vital to the security of his country due to its strategic location and its important mineral supply, without ruling out the use of force to take it.
This week numerous European countries, such as France and Germany, have sent soldiers to the island at the request of Denmark.
Greenland grateful for Danish collaboration
“I am very grateful for the enormous support we Greenlanders receive (…) We are also sending a message to the world that everyone needs to wake up,” said Julie Rademacher, president of the citizen movement Uagut, “Don’t touch Greenland,” in Denmark.
“Greenland and Greenlanders have unwittingly become the front lines of the fight for democracy and human rights,” Rademacher added.
Demonstrations in Denmark and Greenland
During this Saturday, in addition to the demonstrations that have taken place this morning in numerous Danish cities, there is also scheduled to be one this afternoon in the Greenlandic capital of Nuuk.
The protests in Denmark have been organized by Greenlandic groups in cooperation with ActionAid Denmark, an NGO.
Diplomatic crisis between the US and Denmark
Trump’s repeated statements about the island have triggered an unprecedented diplomatic crisis between the United States and Denmark, both founding members of the NATO military alliance, and have been widely condemned in Europe.
The territory of Greenland, with 57,000 inhabitants and governed for centuries from Copenhagen, has achieved significant autonomy since 1979, but remains part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which controls defense and foreign policy and finances much of its administration.
The five political parties elected to Greenland’s parliament are ultimately in favor of independence but disagree on the timeline for such a move and have said in recent days that they would prefer to remain part of Denmark than join the United States.
“We demand respect for the Kingdom of Denmark and for Greenland’s right to self-determination,” said Camilla Siezing, president of Inuit, the Joint Association of Greenlandic Local Associations in Denmark.
According to Danish authorities, about 17,000 Greenlanders live in Denmark.
Only 17% of Americans approve of President Donald Trump’s efforts to annex Greenland, and a large majority of Democrats and Republicans oppose using military force to annex the island, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Trump has called the poll “fake.”