Greenlanders Demonstrate Outside The US Consulate To Reject Annexation
People take part in a demonstration in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, on 15 March 2025, under the slogan ‘Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people’. Photo: EFE/EPA/CHRISTIAN KLINDT SOELBECK DENMARK OUT
March 15, 2025 Hour: 5:47 pm
Hundreds of Greenland citizens demonstrated on Saturday in Nuuk, the capital of the polar island, protesting against the intention expressed by US President Donald Trump to annex this territory dependent on Denmark.
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The protest was called under the slogan “Enough is enough!” and the Facebook appeal reads that the people of Greenland must send a clear message to Trump that his threats are “unacceptable”. Among the demonstrators were the leader of the liberal party that won Tuesday’s parliamentary elections, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, and the acting prime minister, Múte B. Egede.
“We want to be ourselves, and our autonomy and our freedom will never be up for debate,” Nielsen told DR during the demonstration, after criticizing the “inappropriate discourse” coming from the US and highlighting the importance of unity beyond political affiliation.
“In no way will I talk to Trump about Greenland becoming part of the US. Greenland will be Greenland,” she stated, emphasizing that the island “is not for sale.”
Nielsen also thanked the European countries and the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, for their support on this issue, although she criticized NATO chief Mark Rutte for not intervening in the press conference where Trump reiterated his aspirations this Thursday to demand respect for international law.
A protester interviewed by the same outlet said that in the 40 years she had lived in Nuuk – where despite the sunny weather, the thermometer did not rise above -9 ºC today – she had never seen so many people in one place.
The protesters, led by Egede and Nielsen, headed towards the US Consulate in Nuuk, where they chanted “Kalaalilit Nunaat,” the name of Greenland in Greenlandic, and sang the national anthem together.
Another demonstration for the same reason was held this Saturday in Sisimiut, the second largest city in the Arctic territory, which has just 57,000 inhabitants, a third of whom are concentrated in Nuuk.
This Friday, the leaders of the five Greenlandic parties with parliamentary representation described Trump’s latest statements about his desire to annex the autonomous Danish territory as “unacceptable.”
Autor: ACJ
Fuente: EFE // DW
