Senator Lisa Murkowski emphasized that Greenland should be treated as an ally, not as an object to be taken over. She made this statement during the Arctic Frontiers conference in Norway. During the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø,

Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her Danish counterpart in an Arctic region group of legislators issued a joint statement Monday rejecting President Trump’s plan to purchase Greenland and urging the U.S. to treat the country as “an ally,

The Alaska Republican and a Danish parliamentarian said the Arctic island is “open for business, but not for sale.”

As legislators representing Greenland in Denmark and the United States, we see a better path forward,” the two lawmakers wrote in the statement.