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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, had a “heated” conversation with the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, about her firm decision of Buy Greenlandsaid Friday, January 24, the newspaper ‘Financial Times’ (FT).
According to the British newspaper, five senior European officials said the telephone conversation held last week Trump and Frederiksen, for 45 minutes, “had gone very badly.”
They added that the American president replied “aggressive and confrontational” to the comments of the Danish Prime Minister, after it emphasized that the Arctic Island, autonomous part of Denmark, “was not for sale.”
“He (Trump) was very firm. It was a jug of cold water. Before it was difficult to take it seriously, but now I think it is serious and potentially very dangerous, ”said one of the European officials to FT.
Another former Danish official, also informed about the call, assured the aforementioned newspaper that Trump had threatened to take “specific measures against Denmark, as selective tariffs.”
Given this information, Frederiksen’s office said that “he did not recognize the interpretation of the conversation given by anonymous sources.”
“The Prime Minister has been sent in the conversation to the statements of the regional president Múte B. Egede that Greenland is not for sale and has affirmed that it is Greenland herself who decides on her independence,” said the Danish government in a statement in a statement , on January 15, when the conversation between Trump and Frederiksen took place.
Likewise, Egede was open to negotiating with the United States and said “initiated a dialogue and began to explore the possibilities to cooperate with Trump”, but stressed that the island “is not for sale.”
Before his arrival at the White House, Trump said he would not rule out the use of military force or economic sanctions to get Greenland, statements subsequently nuanced by his now vice president, JD Vance.
The United States has a base in the north of the island, under a broad defense agreement with Denmark signed seven decades ago and includes the possibility of increasing the US military presence.
This Arctic Island, the largest in the world, of two million square kilometers (80 % covered by the ice) and only 56,000 inhabitants, since 2009 enjoy a new statute that recognizes its right of self -determination.
The majority of parties and the population defend the separation of Denmark, but half of the island’s budget depends on Copenhagen’s annual aid and attempts to increase revenues with their mineral and oil wealth have failed at the moment for the difficulties and difficulties and The high cost of extraction.
EFE
