Word: qassimiut
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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Motzfeldt, a seal hunter's son from Qassimiut, a southern settlement, sets the first priority as fishing rights. Greenlanders now have exclusive rights up to twelve miles offshore, but Motzfeldt wants this extended to 100 miles. He threatens to pull out of the Common Market, to which Greenland reluctantly belongs through its link with Denmark, "if we do not get satisfaction" on fishing...
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