The official said that “cooperation with the Kingdom of Denmark has not been successful in creating full equality.”
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede emphasized in his New Year’s speech his desire to achieve the island’s independence from Denmark. This was reported by Reuters on Friday, January 3.
“It is time for us to take the initiative and shape our future, including who we will work with and who our trading partners will be…
History and modern conditions have shown that our cooperation with the Kingdom of Denmark has not been successful in creating full equality. It is time for our country to take the next step. Like other countries around the world, we must strive to remove the barriers to cooperation – which we can describe as the shackles of colonialism – and move forward,” the official said.
He added that the decision on independence should be made by the people of Greenland, but did not say when the vote might take place.
In the past, US President-elect Donald Trump talked about buying Greenland, several times suggested that Canada become the 51st state of the US, and also threatened to return the Panama Corridor to American control.
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