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Greenland has representative offices in several countries and otherwise is represented by embassies of Denmark worldwide. The Self-Government Act of 2009 allows the government of Greenland to open diplomatic offices, mainly within areas of full jurisdiction of Greenland, this being foreign trade, industry, fisheries, education, science, mining etc.
Henrik Kauffmann explaining the agreement with the US over Greenland Henrik Kauffmann (26 August 1888 – 5 June 1963) was the Danish ambassador to the United States during World War II , who signed over part of Greenland to the US.
In light of the news that Queen Margrethe will abdicate for her son, Prince Frederik, we're taking a look back at Denmark's royal family over the years, with sweet snaps of the matriarch, Queen ...
The relationship between Denmark and Greenland has been strained after an investigation revealed Danish colonial officials forced thousands of young Greenlandic women to use contraceptives to ...
The relationship between the three parts of the Kingdom is known as Rigsfællesskabet (The unity of the Realm). [k] The Kingdom of Denmark is not a federation; rather a concept encompassing the three autonomous legal systems of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, united under its monarch. The Kingdom of Denmark is a unitary sovereign state.
Greenland, the world's biggest island, has been part of Denmark for 600 years although its 57,000 people now govern their own domestic affairs. The island's government led by Prime Minister Mute ...
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen [1] (/ ˈ r æ s m ʊ s ən /; 7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) [2] was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" [3] (now often known as Inuit Studies or Greenlandic and Arctic Studies) and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. [4]
Greenland’s prime minister, Mute Egede, signaled on Tuesday that the territory does not want to engage in the political back-and-forth between the US and Denmark. “Greenland belongs to the ...