{"id":7874,"date":"2025-04-27T18:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T18:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2025-04-27T18:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T18:48:15","slug":"greenlands-prime-minister-says-island-cant-be-bought-and-us-isnt-showing-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7874","title":{"rendered":"Greenland&#8217;s prime minister says island can&#8217;t be bought and US isn&#8217;t showing respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">LYNGBY, Denmark &#8212; <\/span>New Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Sunday that U.S. statements about the mineral-rich Arctic island have been disrespectful and that Greenland \u201cwill never, ever be a piece of property that can be bought by just anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nielsen made the remarks in defiance of U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s interest in taking control of the strategic territory as Nielsen stood side by side with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on the second day of a three-day official visit. Greenland is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The talks from the United States have not been respectful,\u201d Nielsen said at a news conference at the prime minister\u2019s Marienborg official residence in Lyngby, 12 kilometers (8 miles) north of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThe words used have not be respectful. That\u2019s why we need in this situation, we need to stand together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Political parties in Greenland, which has been leaning toward eventual independence from Denmark for years, recently agreed to form a broad-based new coalition government in the face of Trump\u2019s designs on the territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Greenland\u2019s government said that Nielsen\u2019s three-day visit, which began Saturday, was aimed at future cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cDenmark has the will to invest in the Greenlandic society, and we don\u2019t just have that for historical reasons. We also have that because we are part of (the Danish) commonwealth with each other,\u201d said Frederiksen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWe of course have a will to also continue investing in the Greenlandic society,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nielsen is set to meet King Frederik X on Monday, before returning to Greenland with Frederik for a royal visit to the island. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Frederiksen and Nielsen were asked whether a meeting between them and Trump was being planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">\u201cWe always want to meet with the American president,&#8221; Frederiksen said. &#8220;Of course we want to. But I think we have been very, very clear in what is the (Danish commonwealth\u2019s) approach to all parts of the Kingdom of Denmark.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYNGBY, Denmark &#8212; New Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Sunday that U.S. statements about the mineral-rich Arctic island have been disrespectful and that Greenland \u201cwill never, ever be a piece of property that can be bought by just anyone.\u201d Nielsen made the remarks in defiance of U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s interest in taking control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7876,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions\/7876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}