Mogens Lykketoft: Denmark can’t give Greenland to US

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Denmark cannot simply give Greenland to the US as only Greenlanders can decide their future, says former Danish Foreign Minister Mogens Lykketoft.  #Greenland #Trump

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00:00So, if the President of the United States wants more military presence, not only from

00:06Denmark as you have just decided to present, but from himself, the door is open.

00:15If the United States wants to invest more in mineral resources in Greenland, the door

00:19has been open for a long time, but it's not that easy.

00:23Several companies have tried and given up.

00:27But what we cannot do, of course, is to secede the island of Greenland to the United States.

00:35It has to be decided by the people living in Greenland, and right now, in coordination

00:41with the Kingdom of Denmark, where Greenland is a part.

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