The White House has announced that Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, will visit Greenland from Thursday to Saturday to attend Greenland’s national dogsled race in Sisimiut, on the northwestern coast.
According to the Arctic island’s outgoing Prime Minister Mute Egede, US national security adviser Mike Waltz will also visit Greenland this week, while US media have reported that Energy Secretary Chris Wright will travel there as well.
“You can’t organise a private visit with official representatives of another country,“ Frederiksen told reporters.
“This is clearly not a visit that is about what Greenland needs or wants,“ Frederiksen told broadcaster DR.
“And it’s pressure we will resist,“ she added.
The outgoing Greenlandic government said in a post on Facebook it had not “sent out any invitations for visits, private or official”.
Since returning to power in January, Trump has insisted he wants the United States to take over Greenland for national security purposes and has even refused to rule out the use of force to achieve that aim.
It is also strategically located between North America and Europe at a time of rising US, Chinese and Russian interest in the Arctic, where sea lanes have opened up due to climate change.
According to opinion polls, most Greenlanders support independence from Denmark but not annexation by Washington.
Aaja Chemnitz, a lawmaker representing Greenland in the Danish parliament, insisted the US delegation had not been invited.
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“We’ve been invited,“ Trump told reporters on Monday.
The Danish prime minister stressed Copenhagen and Nuuk were still open to cooperation with the US.
“There is nothing that indicates, neither in Denmark nor Greenland, that we don’t want to cooperate with the Americans.”
“This is our way of showing that we don’t agree with their presence and their way of doing things,“ Per Norgard said.
In the current negotiations to form a new coalition government, only one of the five parties in parliament has quit the talks -- the Naleraq party.
While all of the parties are in favour of eventual independence, Naleraq has campaigned for a quicker emancipation from Denmark.
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