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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ap Correspondent

‘We don’t want to be Americans’: Greenland leaders hit back at Trump’s push for control

Coloured houses covered by snow are seen from the sea in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 6, 2025 - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Greenlandic party leaders have unequivocally dismissed Donald Trump's repeated proposals for the United States to take control of the vast Arctic island, asserting that its future must be determined by its own populace.

In a joint statement released on Friday night, Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, alongside four prominent party leaders, declared: "We don't want to be Americans, we don't want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders."

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