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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ap Correspondent

‘Greenland is ours’, island’s PM declares, in clear rebuttal of Trump proposal

Greenland's prime minister has issued a firm rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US could acquire the Arctic island, declaring, “Greenland is ours.”

In a Facebook post published in Greenlandic and Danish, Múte Bourup Egede said that Greenland's citizens were neither American nor Danish, but Greenlandic, and that their futures would be decided by themselves.

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