Bloomberg: Greenlanders Offer Rebuff To Trump

The survey included 497 interviews.

The vast majority of Greenland's population opposes secession from Denmark. This is a blow to President Donald Trump's insistence that the island wants to join the US.

This is reported by Bloomberg.

A Verian poll commissioned by the Danish newspaper of Berlingske and Greenlandic publication of Sermitsiaq showed that 85 per cent of the population of the self-governing Arctic territory do not want to be part of the US. Only 6 per cent said they would prefer the US, while 9 per cent were undecided.

Trump insists he wants to take over the world's largest island for security reasons and has refused to rule out the use of force. He has also argued that the people of Greenland would prefer to be part of the US. His interest in the territory stems from his first term in office.

‘The people of Greenland are not happy with Denmark,’ Trump said on 21 January. ‘You know, I think they're happy with us.’

That view is not shared by Greenland's leaders, many of whom instead seek independence. Although the island is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, its 57,000 inhabitants have extensive self-government.

‘We don't want to be Danes, we don't want to be Americans, we certainly want to be Greenlanders,’ the territory's prime minister, Muthe Bowrup Egede, said recently.

‘Trump must not get Greenland,’ Lars Lekke Rasmussen, Denmark's foreign minister, said. ‘Greenland is Greenland. The Greenlandic people are a people also in the sense of international law,’ and they ultimately determine their own situation.

The survey consisted of 497 interviews conducted online between 22 and 26 January, including a representative sample of Greenlandic citizens aged 18 and older. The statistical uncertainty in the responses is about 3.1 percentage points.

The poll also showed that 45 per cent of Greenlanders consider Trump's interest in Greenland a threat. Only about 8 per cent would accept a US passport if they had to make an instant choice between Danish and US citizenship.

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