When requested if he had spoken with the incoming U.S. President, Egede stated “no, however we’re prepared to speak,” echoing Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s assertion on Thursday that she had requested to talk with Trump.
As to what form the Danish-Greenlandic relationship may entail sooner or later, Egede steered that Greenland desires to be in cost: “There is extra that unites us however the need to be grasp of 1’s personal home is comprehensible to everybody on the earth.”
“When I’ve to speak to a different nation’s chief, I’ve to be along with the Danish ambassador. It’s issues like these the place we want to have our personal voice. That, I feel, is reliable, when one desires to construct their county on these values,” Egede stated.
Frederiksen, for her half, emphasised the necessity to stand collectively to have a seat on the world desk, to sort out the three-fold pressures on Arctic from the U.S, China and Russia.
“What issues essentially the most proper now’s getting extra elbow room in international coverage. It is one thing that we’re taking a look at,” she stated.