Self-rule Introduced in Greenland
World | June 21, 2009, Sunday // 14:59| viewsGreenland Prime Minister Kleist has promised to focus on social problems. Photo by EPA/BGNES
The Arctic island of Greenland is assuming self-rule, in the latest step towards independence from Denmark, BBC reported.
The move follows a referendum on greater autonomy in November. It will see Greenland take a greater share of revenues from its natural resources.
The local government is taking control of the police and the courts. Greenlandic - or Kalaallisut - becomes the official language.
Denmark has the final say in defence and foreign-policy matters.
Copenhagen has ruled Greenland for three centuries. It granted the territory limited sovereignty in 1979.
But the new self-rule system takes the Arctic island and its 57,000 inhabitants closer to independence.
Greenlanders - most of whom are native Inuit - will be treated as a separate people under international law.
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