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Greenland does not want to be American or Danish but independent, according to the Arctic island's prime minister at the end of a tumultuous week after US president-elect Donald Trump. refusal to control power to take control of the territory.
Múte Egede said “the status quo is not an option” as he laid out the desire of the large and important island of 57,000 to find “its voice” by gaining independence from Denmark and putting to rest Trump's attempts to buy Greenland.
“We don't want to be Danish, we don't want to be American, we want to be Greenlandic,” he told a press conference.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in one meeting that Greenland's desire for independence is “legitimate and understandable” while calling the US interest in an independent area “good”.
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