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All the hoopla about the importance of the Arctic is somewhat belied by a lack of the resources really being devoted to it,
We’ve sort of been asleep at the switch,
said Michael O’Hanlon, director of research in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. It is clear that the sovereignty of states has to be respected,
said spokesperson Anitta Hipper I have no perception that we are in a foreign policy crisis,
he said in a press conference We are still in the waiting room when it comes to knowing exactly what the Trump administration means,
said Lill Rastad Bjorst, an associate professor at Aalborg University specialising in Greenland As the demand for minerals is rising, there is a need to go and look for untapped resources,
said Ditte Brasso Sorensen, an analyst at Think Tank Europa Greenland belongs to Greenlanders. Our future is ours to shape,
During the war -– while Denmark was occupied by Germany -– the US took over Greenland. In a sense they have never left,
We are just here as tourists, to see it all,
he told reporters, declining to comment on broader American interest in Greenland Greenland has made it clear that it is not for sale,
More than ever, we and our European partners need to be conscious, to get away from a form of naivety, to protect ourselves, to rearm,
Today, we are seeing the rise in blocs, we can see this as a form of imperialism, which materialises itself in the statements that we saw from Mr Trump on the annexation of an entire territory,
We fully recognise that Greenland has its own ambitions. If they materialise, Greenland will become independent, though hardly with an ambition to become a federal state in the United States,
Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said He's popular in Greenland. So he can clearly be helpful to the Danish-Greenlandic relationship,
Damien Degeorges, a Reykjavik-based consultant specialising in Greenland, told Reuters I find it extremely ridiculous,
said Jeppe Finne Sorenson, a data engineer in the Danish capital It seems unthinkable and I don't think anyone expects this to actually happen. It sounds like trolling on the internet, and I guess we can find a bit of comfort in that,
That would be up to the opinion of politicians like me and others, whether it would be approved,
We want to keep good relations with the United States. It's good for both of us. We think it's certainly crucial for Denmark, but also on the other hand there are limits to what you can even take,
conservative politician Rasmus Jarlov told CNN host Jim Acosta It's written kind of like a joke, so I'm not really sure whether to take it – whether to laugh at it or to take it seriously,
Greenland is ours. We are not for sale, and we will never be for sale. We must not lose our long fight for freedom."
Greenland's prime minister, Múte Bourup Egede, responded to Donald Trump's remarks in a statement saying
