Icebergs are photographed from the window of an airplane carrying NASA scientists as they fly on a mission to trace melting ice in japanese Greenland on Aug. 14, 2019.
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NUUK, Greenland — Greenland’s parliament handed a invoice Tuesday that bans political events from receiving contributions “from overseas or nameless contributors” after President Donald Trump expressed his wish that the USA take over the huge and mineral-rich Arctic island that belongs to Denmark.
The invoice is geared toward defending “Greenland’s political integrity” and can take impact instantly, in line with a translation of a parliamentary doc in Danish outlining the measure.
The invoice “have to 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 using army power to grab management of Greenland, calling it important to U.S. nationwide safety. His oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., visited Greenland final month and informed residents: “We’ll deal with you effectively.”
Denmark is a longtime U.S. ally and a founding member of NATO, and its semiautonomous territory is residence to a big U.S. army base.
With a complete space of two.17 million sq. kilometers (836,000 sq. miles), Greenland — inhabitants about 57,000 — is over one-fifth the scale of the USA, in line with the CIA World Factbook.
A senior authorized officer at Greenland’s parliament, Kent Fridberg, informed The Related Press he didn’t know whether or not any overseas donors had contributed to Greenland’s political events and the thought 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 usually funded by public means.
The brand new measure additionally prohibits any single get together from receiving home personal contributions that exceed 200,000 Danish kroner (about $27,700) in whole, or 20,000 kroner (about $2,770) from a single contributor.
