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Michael Sainato

‘We are not for sale’: chair of Greenland’s top labor union rebukes Trump’s call for annexation

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Jess Berthelsen. Photograph: YouTube via Kattuffik SIK

Greenland “will not be annexed”, the longtime leader of its largest labor union has declared, refuting Donald Trump’s claims that the Arctic territory’s current status poses a national security threat to the US.

In an interview with the Guardian, Jess Berthelsen, chair of SIK, Greenland’s national trade union confederation, said people in the territory do not recognize the US president’s allegations that Russian and Chinese ships are scattered throughout its waters. “We can’t see it, we can’t recognize it and we can’t understand it,” he said.

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