Copenhagen - Saba:
Demonstrations took place in the capital, Copenhagen, and several other cities in Denmark against the United States' repeated claim to Greenland.
According to the Danish News Agency on Saturday, the demonstration was concentrated in the capital near the US embassy and involved more than 800 people.
The agency wrote: "Many angry and disgruntled Danes demonstrated today in Denmark's two largest cities, Aarhus and Copenhagen, to protest the United States' continued pressure to allow them to acquire Greenland."
The demonstrators, who gathered in front of the US embassy, carried Greenlandic and Danish flags and small signs reading "Greenland is not for sale."
It is worth noting that Trump emphasized this March that Greenland would "one way or another" come under US control. Since assuming his second term as president on January 20, Trump has made the annexation of Greenland a central issue in his political rhetoric, citing its strategic importance and rich mineral resources, as well as its crucial geographic location on the shortest route between Europe and North America, which is crucial to the US missile warning system.
Greenland was a Danish colony until 1953. It remains part of the kingdom, but was granted self-rule in 2009.
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