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ATUAGAGDL1UTIT/GRØNLANDSP0STEN
NR. 110 1991
ATUAGAGDLIUTIT
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Welcome to the
UN-Conference
AG is today published in three
languages for a change
Greenland has often
been host for Nordic
and Arctic conferen-
ces, but with the UN-
conference it is the
first time Greenland
is host for an interna-
tional conference
with participants
from all over the
world.
In itself, it is an exci-
ting historical event for a
country, which is looked
upon as being situated
far away and isolated
from the rest of the
world. At AG, the oldest
newspaper in Greenland,
we would also like to
emphasize the UN-con-
ference. Originally - back
to the foundation of the
newspaper in 1861 and
till the beginning of the
1950’ies - Atuagagdliutit
was only published in
Greenlandic.
But when Greenland
was opened towards the
world, stop being a Da-
nish colony and went in-
to an often breathless de-
velopment, Atuagagdliu-
tit/Grønlandsposten
started to be published
bilan gu al Greenlandic/
Danish, which has conti-
nued since. But to emp-
hasize the UN-conferen-
ce and to give all the fore-
ign visitors a small
glimpse about the actual
situation in Greenland,
parts of the newspaper
will be in English today.
We have chosen to
bring some individual ar-
ticles concerning topicals
of current interest, in
Engish. The articles have
been published recently,
and hopefully they will
give you an impression of
actual problems in the
homeruled Greenland -
one of the main topics in
the UN-conference.
Limits for KNI
KNI has set limitations on what it may seil, for example,
it must not sell dry goods or timber, and is not permitted
to rent videos to the public.
NUUK(KR) - AG has ma-
de a series of articles sta-
ting that KNI’s freedom
at selling almost any-
thing, has made it rather
difficult for the small
private business owners
of Greenland. KNI has la-
tely also made plans
about video rentals in se-
ven select towns in Gre-
enland.
»We want to improve the
private business owner’s ef-
flciency on those maks whe-
re KNI is working, by defi-
ning, and limiting KNI’s
business territories. I can
imagine that from now on
KNI shouldn’t work with
certain products, such as
dry goods, hardware, video-
renting, timber, and fastfo-
od stores. All those territori-
es have a marginal value for
KNI’s results, but it is a gre-
at inconvinience for the pri-
vate business owners«, sta-
ted Lars Emil Johansen, the
Prime Minister of Green-
land at a press conference.
Improved conditlons
»The government’s prioriti-
es at this time are to impro-
ve their competetors ability
to compete with them and to
make a profit. We want to
eliminate all factors that
will dissable this. In the end,
it will be the consumer that
will benefit from free com-
petition«, said Lars Emil Jo-
hansen
AG described in Monday’s
newspaper, how Tele Atta-
veqaatit selis computer
equiptment in competition
with the private computer
dealers. We want to be rid of
that part of Tele’s activity,
which as far as I know, do-
esn’t hold that much im-
portance for them. I think
that this problem could be
solved privately, without
the government being invol-
ved with it.
»The main idea is to redu-
ce the bad competition fac-
tors in the areas where there
are private and commercial
businesses. Those places
where KNI is the alone, it
will probably be necessary to
exempt from this main re-
quirement«, stated the Pri-
me Minister.
Most of the government
members were at a press
conference on Wednesday
afternoon. Neither Kupik
Kleist, or the Prime Mini-
ster would make a state-
ment about the new plans
that the government has for
making KNI into a joint
stock company. As far as is
known these plans are put
on the shelf for the time be-
ing.
The prayer is heard
There have been numerous
articles in AG regarding the
conditions between the pri-
vate business owners and
KNI. The business owners
have requested a thorough
investigation of KNI’s pri-
ces. This »prayer« has been
heard by the government.
»We want to look doser at
the determination of the pri-
ces. so that it will be veiy
clear to the people to under-
stand why the prices are
what they are. They have to
understand that we have to
pay a certain amount for the
monopoly of the groceries in
KNI, also for freight, and a
large amount simply for sto-
re expences. We want people
to know exactly what it is
that they are paying for.
How much of what they pay
is for KNI’s own storeroom
expenses, and how much of
it is for the private business
owner’s storeroom expen-
ses«, continues Lars Emil
Johansen.
»When I mention about
the storeroom expenses in
KNI, it’s because it is one of
the essential points that the
private clothing businesses
continually point out. There
seems to be an uneven par-
ting of the payments in the
storeroom expenses, we
want to solve this problem,
and introduce a new system,
where you pay the same
amount all around«.
Hasn’t been in
the councii
With the same breath as the
previous statement Lars
Emil Johansen adds that
neither the IA party, or the
Siumut party has been to
their councils with the pro-
posals. They have simply be-
en thought of as topics of
discussion.
AG tried at the end of the
conference to get a comment
on what the government’s
ideas were on how to limit
KNI’s activities from the
private business owners.
The president of the Society
for Private Business Ow-
ners in Greenland, Benny
Reiding, says that, »I welco-
me the ideas, and the incen-
tive of the private business
owners. Of course it would
help the private owners to
limit KNI. I would like to
know how the government
feels the outcome will be.«
It was not possible to spe-
ak with the Prime Minister
after the press conference.
But the treasurer of an orga-
nization called FANG, Bjar-
Business of
the Homerule
KNI is an abbreviation of
Kalaallit Niuerfiat. KNI
is a chain of stores owned
by the homerule govern-
ment of Greenland. The
chain has grocery stores
and shops in all towns
and villages in Green-
land. KNI has a monopo-
ly on all of the grocery
cargo shipped from Den-
mark to Greenland.
KNI was originally na-
med The Royal Green-
landic Trade (KGH), but
in 1985 the homerule go-
vernment of Greenland
took over the 250 year
old organization from
the Danish State, and
was there after named
KNI.
ne Gantzhom, states from
his hotel room in Montreal,
»Now it looks like we have
started talking. The inten-
tions sound positive, and we
really can’t ask for more in
the first round. Any fur ther
action will probably occur
during the spring gathering.
But will be the concrete ac-
tion from the politicians? It
is exciting and wonderful
that they have heard our
prayer s. We look forward to
hearing the talks about the-
se issues in the near future«.
AG, September 6th, 1991
Lars Emil Johansen. (Photo, Knud Josefsen)
It was a fresh government president that represented the governmental ideas to the press. (Photo, Knud Josefsen)