| | Rasmussen: March 2001, Pugwash Occasional Papers |
 | | Then, in a move reflecting Greenland’s desire to have a stronger voice in foreign and security policy issues (still the preserve of the Danish government), a permanent group of Danish and Greenlandic officials was created as an ongoing forum for discussion of foreign and security policy issues, in particular the 1951 Treaty. |
 | | The largest island on earth (at 2.1m square kilometers), Greenland changed from being a colony to a province of Denmark in 1953 and was brought in as a member of the European Union in 1972 (despite a no vote of 71 percent in a local referendum). |
 | | Since then, the only official statement to come from the Greenland Government was a joint communique in November 1999 of the main coalition parties,4 the Siumut and Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), noting their opposition should NMD either contravene the ABM Treaty or be implemented unilaterally by the Americans. |
| www.pugwash.org /reports/nw/op2_2/opv2n2_8.htm (1428 words) |