“If we have now to decide on between the USA and Denmark right here and now, we select Denmark,” mentioned Greenland’s PM.
Printed On 13 Jan 2026
Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has mentioned the self-governed Danish territory desires to stay a part of Denmark moderately than be part of the USA, amid US President Donald Trump’s ongoing push to take over the island.
Talking at a information convention in Copenhagen alongside Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Nielsen mentioned the autonomous Arctic territory would like to stay Danish.
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“We are actually going through a geopolitical disaster, and if we have now to decide on between the USA and Denmark right here and now, we select Denmark,” he mentioned.
Frederiksen mentioned it had not been straightforward to face as much as what she slammed as “utterly unacceptable strain from our closest ally”.
Nielsen’s feedback got here a day after the authorities of Greenland rejected Trump’s threats of a takeover.
“The USA has as soon as once more reiterated its need to take over Greenland. That is one thing that the governing coalition in Greenland can not settle for beneath any circumstance,” mentioned the island’s coalition authorities.
“As a part of the Danish commonwealth, Greenland is a member of NATO, and the defence of Greenland should subsequently be by means of NATO,” it added.
Trump has insisted that he’ll seize Greenland, threatening that the territory might be introduced beneath US management “a technique or one other”.
These threats have created a disaster for NATO, sparking outrage from European allies who’ve warned that any takeover of Greenland would have critical repercussions for ties between the US and Europe.
Aaja Chemnitz, a Greenlandic politician within the Danish parliament, informed Al Jazeera {that a} majority of Greenland’s 56,000 folks didn’t need to change into US residents.
“Greenland isn’t on the market, and Greenland won’t ever be on the market,” Chemnitz, from the Inuit Ataqatigiit get together, mentioned.
“Individuals appear to assume they will purchase the Greenlandic soul. It’s our id, our language, our tradition – and it could look utterly completely different should you grew to become an American citizen, and that’s not one thing a majority in Greenland need.”
