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

Trump interest in Greenland is ‘wake-up call to Copenhagen’, says minister

Naaja Nathanielsen
Naaja Nathanielsen: ‘We have been trying to get more involvement from both the EU and the United States for many years now.’ Photograph: James Brooks/AFP/Getty Images

A Greenlandic government minister has said she views Donald Trump’s interest in the territory as positive, saying it has acted as a “wake-up call to Copenhagen” after years of failing to adequately respond to its demands for action on minerals and alleged abuses by the Danish state.

Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s minister for housing, infrastructure, minerals, justice and gender equality, said the government had been trying to drum up interest in collaboration with both the EU and the US for “many years”, but it was only now that it was getting the attention it had been seeking.

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