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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Donna Ferguson

Greenlanders ‘don’t want to be Americans’, say political leaders amid Trump threats

A woman holds a placard that says: 'No means no! Stop threatening us!'
A protest in Greenland in 2025 against Donald Trump’s threats to seize the territory.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Greenlanders “don’t want to be Americans” and must decide the future of the Arctic island themselves, politicians in the self-governing Danish territory have said, after Donald Trump warned the US would “do something whether they like it or not”.

The leaders of five political parties in the Greenlandic parliament issued a united statement on Friday night, soon after the US president reiterated his threats to acquire the mineral-rich island.

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