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Greenland PM calls for ‘tougher rejection’ of Trump’s plan to take island

US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte appear to share a joke, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]

Greenland’s outgoing Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for a stronger rejection by local politicians of United States President Donald Trump’s promise to take over the strategically-located island, warning that “enough is enough”.

“This time we need to toughen our rejection of Trump. People cannot continue to disrespect us,” Egede wrote on Facebook after Trump reiterated on Thursday his desire to annex the autonomous Danish territory.

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