Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her Danish counterpart in an Arctic region group of legislators issued a joint statement Monday rejecting President Trump’s plan to purchase Greenland and urging the U.S. to treat the country as “an ally,

The Alaska Republican and a Danish parliamentarian said the Arctic island is “open for business, but not for sale.”

As legislators representing Greenland in Denmark and the United States, we see a better path forward,” the two lawmakers wrote in the statement.