Canada and Denmark are agreed that the row over Hans Ø should be resolved at the negotiating table, recounts the Greenland National Broadcasting Company. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen made this clear following the national assembly on the Faroe Islands, during which he discussed the matter with Greenlandic Premier Hans Enoksen.

“The Danish government has made it clear that the area belongs to Greenland. We have clear and strong historical, geographical and geological arguments to back this up. Denmark has considered Hans Ø as a Greenlandic island long before Canada began to show interest in it”, said the Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday that the dispute over sovereignty, which has been going on since 1973, must now be resolved and that efforts are being made to arrange a meeting between the Danish and Canadian foreign ministers and the Greenland Home Rule.