A high-profile US delegation will go to Greenland this week as President Donald Trump continues to threaten to annexe the strategic Danish territory.
Usha Vance, spouse of vice-president JD Vance, will lead the delegation that features White Home nationwide safety adviser Mike Waltz and vitality secretary Chris Wright.
Mr Waltz and Mr Wright plan to go to the Pituffik house base, the US navy base in Greenland.
The group may even watch a nationwide dogsled race and go to historic websites.
Brian Hughes, spokesperson for the White Home nationwide safety council, mentioned the US group is “assured that this go to presents a chance to construct on partnerships that respects Greenland’s self-determination and advances financial cooperation”.
“It is a go to to study Greenland, its tradition, historical past, and other people and to attend a dogsled race america is proud to sponsor, plain and easy,” Mr Hughes added.
Mr Trump has made the US annexation of Greenland a serious speaking level since taking workplace on 20 January.
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Greenland’s strategic location and wealthy mineral assets would profit the US. It additionally lies alongside the shortest route from Europe to North America, and is significant for the US ballistic missile warning system.
The governments of each Greenland and Denmark have voiced opposition to such a transfer.
Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede reacted angrily to information of the US go to, saying his nation has tried “all diplomatic and democratic choices”, however Mr Trump’s mission is “to personal and management Greenland”.
Mr Egede informed newspaper Sermitsiaq: “Each minute counts to make sure that the Individuals’ dream of annexing our nation doesn’t turn into a actuality.”
He mentioned, “till lately” they may “safely belief” Washington, however “that point is over”.
US management, he mentioned, is “utterly and totally detached to what we now have stood collectively on to date, as a result of now it’s only a matter of them taking up our nation over our heads”.
He informed Greenland’s worldwide allies that “hiding in a small nook and nearly whispering that they assist us has no impact”.
“If they don’t communicate out loudly about how the USA is treating Greenland, the state of affairs will escalate day-to-day, and the American aggression will enhance,” he added.
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen mentioned in a written assertion reacting to information of the go to that “that is one thing we take critically”.
She mentioned Denmark desires to cooperate with the US, nevertheless it ought to be cooperation primarily based on “the elemental guidelines of sovereignty”.
