Danish lawmaker fires back: Trump's Greenland remarks 'disrespectful'

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Donald Trump has renewed his interest in acquiring Greenland, even suggesting military intervention might be considered. Danish Parliament member Aaja Chemnitz tells CGTN Europe the U.S. president-elect’s remarks were "disrespectful" towards the Greenlandic people.  #Trump #Denmark #Greenland

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00:00Greenland is not for sale, and Greenland never has been for sale.

00:08It never will be for sale.

00:10It was quite disrespectful towards the Greenlandic people and the indigenous peoples of Greenland.

00:16And I think in many ways, you know, usually you can have diplomatic ties, we can talk

00:21about things, but you can't own or control another country.

00:26I don't think a U.S. presence or a NATO presence is what we need in this situation.

00:32I think it's important to say that we want peace in our area, we want peace in the Arctic

00:37area.

00:38We want a good, but also a peaceful collaboration with the U.S., with Canada.

00:43And I think it's been quite concerning to see how you think that you can just take over

00:48a country, whether it's Greenland or Canada.

00:51It's really something that we have never seen before in history to this extent that we're

00:56seeing right now.

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