India, March 10 -- Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede said on Monday that US President Donald Trump has not treated Greenlanders with respect since his renewed push to assimilate the vast, mineral-rich Arctic island into the United States.

Egede said the people of Greenland must be treated with respect, which Trump hasn't done so far. He said because of the US president's behaviour, the people of the island don't want to get close to the country.

"We deserve to be treated with respect, and I don't think the U.S. president has done that recently since he took office. I think that the recent things the American president has been doing means that people don't want to get as close to (the U.S.) as they might have wanted in the past," he...