Author : Jens Elo Rytter
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9788763525879
Phasing Out the Colonial Status of Greenland, 1945-54 by Jens Elo Rytter Pdf
With the Constitution of 1953, the colonial status of Greenland came to an end, and Greenlanders were granted equal rights as citizens within the Danish realm. In 1954 this new arrangement was supported by the UN General Assembly. The decision to change Greenland's status was conditioned both by internal and external circumstances. In the UN context, Danes increasingly felt the strain of being a colonial power, and they feared the possibility of future UN interference in Greenlandic affairs.