Greenland coalition crumbles in fishing row

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007

COPENHAGEN (AFP) — Greenland's three-party coalition government crumbled late Monday when Prime Minister Hans Enoksen decided to expel the pro-independence far-left Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) due to disagreements over fishing, Greenland's Radio Nuuk reported.

Enoksen of the social-democratic Siumut party hit out at the IA which had over the weekend criticized the government for indirectly accepting rules for intensive fishing of prawn, the "pink gold" of the autonomous Danish overseas territory and its principal resource.

IA leader Josef Motzfeldt, outgoing minister of foreign affairs and finance, said his party "does not want to give up the principles of durable fishing or contribute to compromising the reputation and credibility of Greenland abroad," the website of...