The Danish Prime Minister places Frederiksen mentioned that the “United States mustn’t conquer Greenland” whereas visiting the semi-autonomous territory for a three-day journey geared toward constructing belief and cooperation with Greenland officers.
It arrives at a time when the Trump administration is on the lookout for management of the huge Arctic territory. Greenland is an island wealthy in minerals and strategically crucial that’s turning into extra accessible attributable to local weather change. Trump mentioned that the land mass is key for the safety of the United States.
FrederiKsen introduced the plans for his go to after the Vice -President of the United States JD Vance visited an Air Base within the United States in Greenland final week and accused Denmark of underestimating the territory.
Upon arrival, Frederiksen confused that he intends to “help Greenland in a really troublesome state of affairs”. He mentioned “I wish to say to everybody in Greenland that I’ve just one want, that’s to do all the things attainable to maintain this excellent nation”.
Frederiksen is assembly the chief of Greenland on the best way, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, after an election final month that produced a brand new authorities. He should additionally meet the long run Naalakkersuisut, the cupboard, on a go to attributable to Friday.
“He has my deepest respect for the way the Greenland individuals and Greenland politicians handle the nice strain present in Greenland,” he mentioned within the declaration of the federal government that asserts the go to.
At the Agenda are talks with Nielsen on cooperation between Greenland and Denmark.
Nielsen has declared in the previous few days of welcoming the go to and that Greenland would have resisted any try within the United States to annex the territory.
For years, the individuals of Greenland, with a inhabitants of about 57,000, labored for any independence from Denmark.
The threats of the Trump administration to take management of the island in a method or one other, maybe even with navy drive, made many indignant in Greenland and Denmark. The arrival authorities needs to undertake a slower method on the query of any independence.
