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Greenland on Friday rejected the idea that it might be on sale, after reports that US President Donald Trump had discussed with his advisors in particular the idea of buying the world’s largest island
“We are open to trade, but we are not for sale,” Greenland Foreign Minister Annie Lone Bagger said.
Trump is scheduled to visit Copenhagen in September, and the Arctic will be on the agenda during meetings with the prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland, the Danish autonomous region.
The Wall Street Journal was the first to talk about buying Greenland.
President Donald Trump discussed with his aides and advisers in private sessions the idea of the United States buying Greenland as a way to expand US territory, two informed sources told Reuters.
Some White House advisers took the idea as a joke, but others took it more seriously, the agency said.
“If he really thinks about it, this is final evidence that he has lost his mind,” Soren Espersen, a spokesman for the Danish People’s Party’s foreign affairs, told DR radio.
He added: “The idea that Denmark sells 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely absurd.”
