Most Greenlanders don’t want to be American: poll

The vast majority of Greenland residents do not want their island to become part of the United States as envisaged by President Donald Trump, according to a poll published Wednesday.

Trump, who returned to the White House in late January, has signalled that he wants the Arctic island – which is believed to hold large untapped mineral and oil reserves – to become part of the United States and has suggested the possible use of force or tariffs to annex the autonomous Danish territory.

When asked if they wanted to become part of the United States, 85 per cent of Greenlanders said no, according to the poll published in the Danish Berlingske and Greenland’s Sermitsiaq dailies.

Six per cent of those polled said they were in favour and nine per cent were undecided, according to the poll conducted by the Verian agency.

“It’s the first poll that asked a representative section of Greenland’s population and I think this is very important,” Kasper Moller Hansen, a political-science professor at the University of Copenhagen, told AFP.

  

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