NUUK, Greenland — Greenland’s parliament handed a invoice Tuesday that bans political events from receiving contributions “from international or nameless contributors” after President Donald Trump expressed his want that the US take over the huge and mineral-rich Arctic island that belongs to Denmark.
The invoice is aimed toward defending “Greenland’s political integrity” and can take impact instantly, in response to a translation of a parliamentary doc in Danish outlining the measure.
The invoice “should be seen in mild of the geopolitical pursuits in Greenland and the present state of affairs the place representatives of an allied nice energy have expressed curiosity in taking up and controlling Greenland,” the doc stated.
Earlier than taking workplace for his second time period on Jan. 20, Trump stated he wouldn’t rule out the usage of army drive to grab management of Greenland, calling it very important to U.S. nationwide safety. His oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., visited Greenland final month and instructed residents: “We’re going to deal with you effectively.”
Denmark is a longtime U.S. ally and a founding member of NATO, and its semiautonomous territory is house to a big U.S. army base.
With a complete space of two.17 million sq. kilometers , Greenland — inhabitants about 57,000 — is over one-fifth the dimensions of the US, in response to the CIA World Factbook.
A senior authorized officer at Greenland’s parliament, Kent Fridberg, instructed The Related Press he didn’t know whether or not any international donors had contributed to Greenland’s political events and the concept for the invoice was “principally a preventative measure.”
Fridberg famous that some Russian politicians had voiced the same curiosity — and that political events in Greenland are typically funded by public means.
The brand new measure additionally prohibits any single social gathering from receiving home personal contributions that exceed 200,000 Danish kroner in complete, or 20,000 kroner from a single contributor.
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