Greenland is not for sale

"Greenland is not for sale,” territory official says after meeting with US senators

From CNN’s Ellis Kim, Arlette Saenz and Maureen Chowdhury

The head of representation for Greenland Jacob Isbosethsen told reporters today that there are no plans to sell the territory to the United States after he and the Danish ambassador to the US met with senators.

“Greenland is not for sale,” Isbosethsen said, speaking alongside Ambassador Jesper Møller Sørensen, the Danish ambassador to the US, as well as GOP Sen. Roger Wicker and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

“I think the core of what we have discussed is that we have ample opportunities to strengthen our relationship within the existing structures, and we intend to work on that,” Ambassador Møller Sørensen said, reiterating the country’s stance on the matter amid President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in acquiring the arctic territory.

Wicker, the GOP chair of the Senate Armed Services committee, said it was Denmark’s “prerogative and right” to decline talks over the sale of the semiautonomous territory. He argued the US should focus on other “great opportunities” to enhance the country’s relationship with Denmark and Greenland.

He added later, “I think there are wonderful opportunities with the critical minerals, with the challenges we have in the Arctic, and I think going forward we can answer a lot of the desires of Americans for better security in that way.”