"That is not how you speak to a people who have shown responsibility, stability and loyalty time and again. Enough is enough. No more pressure. No more innuendo. No more fantasies about annexation. Greenland, he said, was open to dialogue but it had to come through the appropriate channels and in line with international law, not random and disrespectful posts on social media. He added: Greenland is our home and our territory. And that is how it will remain."
"In a bracingly direct statement, the Greenlandic prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, accused the US of completely and utterly unacceptable rhetoric, declaring: Enough is enough. On Sunday, Trumpsaid the US needed Greenland very badly renewing fears of a US invasion of the largely autonomous island, which is a former Danish colony and remains part of the Danish kingdom. Greenland's foreign and security policy continues to be controlled by Copenhagen."
"Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, on Sunday said that it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the US needing to take over Greenland, adding that the US has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Danish kingdom. After refusing to rule out military intervention to gain control of Greenland last year, Trump has been relatively quiet on the subject in recent months."
Greenland urged the US president to abandon fantasies of annexation after he said the United States needed Greenland very badly. The Greenlandic prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, called the rhetoric completely and utterly unacceptable and declared: Enough is enough. Greenland is largely autonomous and remains part of the Danish kingdom, with foreign and security policy controlled by Copenhagen. Nielsen said threats, pressure and talk of annexation have no place between friends and insisted that dialogue must proceed through appropriate channels and in line with international law. Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said the US has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Danish kingdom.
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