Greenland has been a part of the Kingdom of Denmark for hundreds of years, and it can decide to become independent in a formal way, former Danish foreign minister Mogens Lykketoft says.
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00:00We were just hearing there from the US President Donald Trump speaking at the weekend.
00:04I mean, this Greenland issue is getting pretty serious, isn't it?
00:09It looks very serious and extremely strange.
00:14I mean, the situation is as follows.
00:18Greenland has been for hundreds of years a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
00:22It is now, as you say, a self-government entity.
00:27They can decide over the coming years to be totally independent, at least in the formal
00:34way, because a small nation like Greenland will always have to lean somewhere, talking
00:40about defense and so on.