We want a sovereign state

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The people of Greenland do not wish to be citizens of another country, but would rather become a sovereign state of their own, member of parliament for Greenland Kuno Fencker says.   #Greenland

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00:00We heard from the lawmaker who represents Greenland in the Danish parliament saying it's

00:05unbelievable some people can be so naive as to believe that our happiness lies in us becoming

00:11American citizens. Kuno, do you want to become an American citizen?

00:14No, but I will say that the way of communicating that is disinformation. It's trying to create

00:22tensions between allies and friends. So, I would just say that, of course,

00:30we don't want to become citizens of other states. We are already citizens of Denmark that annexed

00:37us in 1953, and we don't want to have that. We want our own citizenship here in Greenland. That's

00:43why we want to become a sovereign state, but we are absolutely willing to cooperate in a compact

00:48of free association or any other means of democratic ways.

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