Jens-Frederik Nielsen has rejected the US president’s offer to boost the Arctic island’s healthcare with a medical boat
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has rejected US President Donald Trump’s offer to send a hospital ship to the Danish self-governing territory, which Trump has long sought to acquire.
On Saturday, Trump said he would send a “great hospital boat” to the Arctic island to take care of what he called its “many people who are sick, and not being taken care of.”
Nielsen replied in a Facebook post on Sunday, saying: “it will be a no thank you from here.”
“President Trump’s idea of sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted. But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens,” he said, contrasting it with the US system.
We are always open to dialogue and cooperation. Also with the USA. But now talk to us instead of just making more or less random outbursts on social media.
He stressed, however, that dialogue would require respect for Greenland’s domestic decisions.
Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen also said the island does not require unsolicited aid from Trump.
”The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs,” he told Danish outlet DR on Sunday, noting that citizens either receive medical help on the island or in Denmark.
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