r/BuyFromEU u/Bodiee • • 11h • Belgium T * Top 1% Poster Joint Statement On Greenland by European Allies News 6 January 2020 Joint Statement on Greenland Statement by President Macron of France, Chancellor Merz of Germany, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy, Prime Minister Tusk of Poland, Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain, Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Frederiksen of Denmark on Greenland. Arctic security remains a key priority for Europe and it is critical for international and transatlantic security. NATO has made clear that the Arctic region is a priority and European Allies are stepping up. We and many other Allies have increased our presence, activities and investments, to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries. The Kingdom of Denmark - including Greenland - is part of NATO. Security in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them. The United States is an essential partner in this endeavour, as a NATO ally and through the defence agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States of 1951. Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.
A digitally altered, satirical image shows Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic leader Múte Bourup Egede in an arctic setting. Both are dressed in red parkas with white fur-trimmed hoods and are smiling while making a middle-finger gesture toward Donald Trump, who is seen from behind in the foreground wearing a dark suit and pointing upward. Standing behind them is a polar bear, and in the lower right, a seal, both of which are also depicted making the same gesture. The image satirizes the recurring diplomatic tensions following Trump's proposals for the United States to acquire Greenland—a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark—which Prime Minister Frederiksen has consistently rejected as "absurd" and "unacceptable".
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