A ship rides by means of a frozen sea inlet outdoors 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 aimed toward constructing the belief of Greenlandic officers at a time that the Trump administration is searching for 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 vital island that’s turning into extra accessible resulting from local weather change. Trump has stated that the landmass is vital 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 fulfill with the longer term Naalakkersuisut, the Cupboard, in a go to resulting from final by means of Friday.
“It has my deepest respect how the Greenlandic folks and the Greenlandic politicians deal with the nice stress that’s 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 in some way, probably even with navy pressure, have angered many in Greenland and Denmark. The incoming authorities desires 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 celebration that advocates a swift path towards independence, was excluded from coalition talks to kind the following 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 delicate events nearer to Denmark.
He stated that “Trump has scared most Greenlanders away from this concept a few shut relationship to america as a result of they do not belief him.”
