Nuuk, Greenland. Source: Wikimedia Commons
On Monday night, the U.S. president wrote on his social media, Truth Social, that he has appointed the governor of the state of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, as the U.S. special envoy to Greenland.
The Chairman of the Greenlandic Parliament Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen are now reacting in a joint statement to Donald Trump appointing a special envoy to Greenland.
Jeff Landry himself has thanked for the appointment on the social media X (prohibited in Russia).
“It is an honor to serve you in this voluntary role to make Greenland part of the United States. This in no way affects my position as governor of Louisiana,” he writes on X.
”No” To Annexation
From the two government leaders Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Mette Frederiksen it is once again clear that one cannot annex other countries.
“We have said it very clearly before. Now we say it again. Land borders and the sovereignty of states are rooted in international law. These are fundamental principles. One cannot annex other countries. Not even with an argument about international security. Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders, and the United States should not take over Greenland. We expect respect for our common territorial integrity,” they say in a joint statement.
May Sound Big
Jens-Frederik Nielsen has also commented on the night’s events on Facebook.
“We have now woken up again to a new announcement from the American president, who has now appointed a special envoy to Greenland. It may sound big. But it does not change anything for us at home.”
“Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders and territorial integrity must be respected. We are happy to cooperate with other countries, including the United States,” he writes.
It has been almost a year since Donald Trump again focused on Greenland, when shortly before he was inaugurated as president he stated:
“For national security and freedom in the world, the United States feels that ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Donald Trump wrote in a press release in connection with the appointment of a new ambassador to Denmark on the night of December 23.
At the time, this caused Múte B. Egede, then chairman of Greenland’s government and now the Minister for finance, to react.
“Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our years-long fight for freedom,” he wrote on Facebook.
Source: KNR (in Danish)