Icebergs are photographed from the window of an airplane carrying NASA scientists as they fly on a mission to trace melting ice in jap 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 foreign or anonymous contributors” after President Donald Trump expressed his want that the USA take over the huge and mineral-rich Arctic island that belongs to Denmark.
The invoice is aimed toward defending “Greenland’s political integrity” and can take impact instantly, in keeping with a translation of a parliamentary doc in Danish outlining the measure.
The invoice “must be seen in light of the geopolitical interests in Greenland and the current situation where representatives of an allied great power have expressed interest in taking over and controlling Greenland,” the doc mentioned.
Earlier than taking workplace for his second time period on Jan. 20, Trump mentioned he wouldn’t rule out using army power to grab management of Greenland, calling it very important to U.S. nationwide safety. His oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., visited Greenland final month and informed residents: “We’re going to treat you well.”
Denmark is a longtime U.S. ally and a founding member of NATO, and its semiautonomous territory is dwelling 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 dimensions of the USA, in keeping 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 international donors had contributed to Greenland’s political events and the concept for the invoice was “basically 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 social gathering 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.
