“Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.”

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Greenland’s prime minister Múte B. Egede responded to US president Donald Trump’s comments overnight and rejecting his interest, saying that “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.”

 “We are not Americans, we are not Danes, because we are Greenlanders.

 This is what the Americans and their leaders need to understand,” he said in a Facebook post. 

 “We are not for sale and cannot just be taken,” he added.

 Egede insisted that “the future of the country will be determined by us in our country, of course.” Greenland will hold a general election next week, on 11 March. 

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