Does the United Kingdom have the first right to buy Greenland from Denmark? An agreement of 1917 ‘Trump has never heard,’ he says … – News18

The bet of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to acquire Greenland, could be frustrated by Great Britain under a signed pact more than a century ago, a former diplomat told the Times. Trump has expressed interest in making the Arctic Island, an autonomous territory in Denmark, part of the United States. He has not ruled out the use of military or economic power to persuade Denmark to deliver it. However, experts say that if Denmark sold Greenland, he would have to give Britain the first rejection under an agreement signed in 1917. Tom Hoyem, an old official Danish and expert in the history of Greenland, said that the 1917 agreement still It was valid. The agreement was prepared when the president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, bought the Virgin Islands of the United States for $ 25 million. N18OC_WORLD N18OC_CRUX0: 00 INTRODUCTION2: 05 Centennial document to stand in the Greenland Acquisition Offer of Trump? 3: 54 “I think we are going to have it” 4:50 Denmark ‘scared’ by Trump’s burning call ‘