Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has ruled out selling the island to the U.S. at upcoming crunch talks in Washington.

Greenlandic Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt and Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen are set to meet with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House on Wednesday to discuss President Donald Trump’s threats to take over the island.

Asked Tuesday if those discussions could see Greenland agreeing to a purchase offer from the U.S., Nielsen said: “The mere talk of being able to buy another people is disrespectful.”

Trump has repeatedly voiced his desire to buy the self-ruling Danish territory, calling it a strategic imperative, and has not ruled out using other methods, including military action, if Greenland and Denmark refuse to make a deal.

“It’s easier,” Trump said Sunday, referring to buying the island. “But one way or the other, we’re going to have Greenland.”

Nielsen made the remarks during a joint press conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen and added that Greenlanders “choose Denmark,” vowing to stick together with the Danes.

“We enter the room together,” he said. “We go out together, and we talk to the Americans together.”

Frederiksen said “It has not been easy to stand up to completely unacceptable pressure from our closest allies for a lifetime. But there is much to suggest that the hardest part is still ahead of us.”