Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has said the self-governed Danish territory wants to remain part of Denmark rather than join the United States.
– Alongside Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Nielsen said the autonomous Arctic territory would prefer to remain Danish.
– “We are now facing a geopolitical crisis, and if we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark,” he said.
– Frederiksen said it had not been easy to stand up to what she slammed as “completely unacceptable pressure from our closest ally”.
– “The United States has once again reiterated its desire to take over Greenland. This is something that the governing coalition in Greenland cannot accept under any circumstance,” said the island’s coalition government.
– “As part of the Danish commonwealth, Greenland is a member of NATO, and the defence of Greenland must therefore be through NATO,” it added.
– Aaja Chemnitz, a Greenlandic politician in the Danish parliament, told that a majority of Greenland’s 56,000 people did not want to become US citizens.
– “Greenland is not for sale, and Greenland will never be for sale,” Chemnitz, from the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, said.
– “People seem to think they can buy the Greenlandic soul. It is our identity, our language, our culture – and it would look completely different if you became an American citizen, and that is not something a majority in Greenland want.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/13/we-choose-denmark-over-joining-us-says-greenland-pm-nielsen