Greenland's political parties must set aside disagreements and swiftly form a broad coalition government to show unity in the face of a U.S. campaign to annex the island, the Democrats said on Friday after winning this week's election.

The leaders of all five parties in Greenland’s parliament put out a rare joint statement on Friday rebuking President Donald Trump’s renewed threats to take over the Arctic island. The unified response came after Trump once again suggested this week that the U.

Joint statement issued after US president reiterated his belief that Washington will eventually control the Arctic island

In an unusual show of unity, party leaders say they "cannot accept the repeated statements about the annexation of Greenland."