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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

After so long in Trump’s sights, hopeful Greenlanders breathe a collective sigh of relief

Aqqalukkuluk Fontain and Stella smile with their daughter Aura on a fairground ride.
Picture shows Aqqalukkuluk Fontain, his girlfriend, Stella, and their three-year-old daughter, Aura. Photograph: Family handout

Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, and Múte B Egede, the foreign minister, received a hero’s welcome when they landed back in Nuuk from New York on Wednesday night – and a nation took a collective sigh of relief.

Colleagues, friends and members of the public turned out to greet them at an airport where, just 20 months ago, the landing of a Trump-branded plane containing Donald Trump Jr had kickstarted a geopolitical crisis that the people of Greenland now hope is over.

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