Trump’s words not a threat

AlArabiya English

US President-elect Donald Trump’s words regarding Greenland are not a threat and he is making the right assessment of the island's importance for security, member of parliament for Greenland Kuno Fencker says.  #Trump #Greenland

Transcript

00:00The king of Denmark is meeting your prime minister today. I assume they're talking about this

00:07very subject. What do you think they're talking about?

00:09Well, first of all, we haven't elected the king of Denmark and he's not elected.

00:16And we haven't even elected the prime minister of Denmark or the foreign minister of Denmark. So

00:22that's why the organization of the so-called Danish realm is non-democratic. So that's why

00:31we want independence because Denmark doesn't listen to us. And I also agree very much with

00:36Greg in regards to how we should interpret Trump's communication about Greenland. And

00:45I don't interpret his remarks as a threat of military force against Greenland or Denmark,

00:51but he's seeing that with the geopolitical tensions we have in the world right now and

00:57the melting ice, we have to protect this island for the security of the North American continent,

01:05which is Greenland, Canada and the U.S. And he's absolutely right in regards to the free passage

01:14of Chinese vessels, Russian vessels or any other kinds of vessels that are coming through our

01:20waters here in Greenland.

Category

Transcript

Recommended