A ship rides via a frozen sea inlet exterior of Nuuk, Greenland on March 6.
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NUUK, Greenland — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is touring to Greenland on Wednesday for a three-day journey geared toward constructing the belief of Greenlandic officers at a time that the Trump administration is in search of management of the huge Arctic territory.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen introduced plans for her go to after U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited a U.S. air base in Greenland final week and accused Denmark of underinvesting within the territory.
Greenland is a mineral-rich, strategically essential island that’s changing into extra accessible attributable to local weather change. Trump has stated that the landmass is essential to U.S. safety. It’s a part of North America however is a semiautonomous territory belonging to the Kingdom of Denmark.
Frederiksen is because of meet the incoming Greenlandic chief, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, after an election final month that produced a brand new authorities. She can also be to satisfy with the longer term Naalakkersuisut, the Cupboard, in a go to attributable to final via Friday.
“It has my deepest respect how the Greenlandic people and the Greenlandic politicians handle the great pressure that is on Greenland,” she stated in authorities assertion asserting the go to.
On the agenda are talks with Nielsen about cooperation between Greenland and Denmark.
For years, the folks of Greenland, with a inhabitants of about 57,000, have been working towards eventual independence from Denmark.
The Trump administration’s threats to take management of the island by some means, presumably even with army power, have angered many in Greenland and Denmark. The incoming authorities needs to take a slower strategy on the query of eventual independence.
The political group in Greenland most sympathetic to the U.S. president, the Naleraq get together that advocates a swift path towards independence, was excluded from coalition talks to type the subsequent authorities.
Peter Viggo Jakobsen, affiliate professor on the Danish Protection Academy, stated final week that Trump administration’s aspirations for Greenland may backfire and push the extra gentle events nearer to Denmark.
He stated that “Trump has scared most Greenlanders away from this idea about a close relationship to the United States because they don’t trust him.”
