A government official from Greenland insists the Danish autonomous territory will not give up its minerals in light of interest from the United States.<\/p>\n
Natural resources minister Naaja Nathanielsen spoke to NHK on Tuesday in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump is keen to take ownership of Greenland, citing national security reasons. He also wants to discuss the territory’s mineral resources, including rare earth elements.<\/p>\n
Nathanielsen said a working group involving Denmark that has been set up to promote dialogue with Washington is for discussing national security issues, not minerals.<\/p>\n
She said, “It is absolutely possible to come and invest into Greenland and develop our minerals alongside us, but we will not give up any minerals for peace.”<\/p>\n
Nathanielsen also said the United States has removed many environmental regulations that are important for Greenland because of climate change in the Arctic.<\/p>\n
She also said there is a lot of potential for cooperation with Japan, and that Japanese technology could help Greenland’s mineral and energy sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A government official from Greenland insists the Danish autonomous territory will not give up its minerals in light…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[2003,3161,57,3160,3163,38,3162,3166,3167,3168,3165,922,3164,3169,595,1827],"class_list":["post-19809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-asia","tag-biz","tag-greenland","tag-japan","tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","tag-news","tag-nhk","tag-nhk-world","tag-nhk-world-premium","tag-nhk-world-tv","tag-nhkworld","tag-nuclear","tag-public-broadcaster","tag-radio-japan","tag-tech","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}