The Greenland Commission presented a text on Friday that the authorities of Denmark’s autonomous Arctic territory could rely on when the day comes when they cut ties with Copenhagen, AFP reports.

After almost four years of working in strict secrecy, the document, written in Greenlandic and consisting of 49 paragraphs, was presented to the local parliament of Inatsisartut, where it is now to be discussed.

The local press notes that the text does not contain final decisions on several points, including justice and access to a Greenlandic passport.

It also makes no mention of the monarchy, although the question will be raised as to whether the Queen or the King of Denmark will remain head of state.

“So far, this is primarily a matter of Greenland. He will look at Denmark only after Greenland talks about it and depending on what the politicians decide,” Ulrik Pram Gad, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and an expert on Danish-Dutch relations, told AFP.

The world’s second-largest island after Australia has been self-governing since 1979 and lies in the Arctic Ocean, some 2,500km from the trusteeship to which it still owes a quarter of its annual GDP in subsidies.

But Greenland, with a population of about 55,000 inhabitants on a vast territory of almost 2.2 million square kilometers, has its own flag, language, culture, institutions and prime minister. Only currency, justice, foreign affairs and security matters are under Danish jurisdiction.

US President Donald Trump’s desire to buy Greenland in 2018 caused a diplomatic incident and scandal.

But even after abandoning any desire to buy, Washington is increasing its influence on Greenland through the import of goods and services.