London: Britain would have the right to buy Greenland before the US, the island’s last Danish minister has said.
Tom Hoyem was Copenhagen’s last permanent representative in the Arctic territory, which established its parliament in 1979 and began a new era of self-rule 30 years later.
Donald Trump has made clear to Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s prime minister, that he wants to place Greenland under American control.
But Hoyem said Trump would require approval from Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer because of an undertaking signed in 1917, the first time the US was interested in acquiring the island.