“INTERNATIONAL PEACE”
“I feel we’d like that for worldwide peace, and if we do not have that it is a huge risk to our world. So I feel Greenland is essential for worldwide peace,” Trump instructed reporters on Thursday throughout a press convention alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Retailer.
In a press release saying the go to, the Danish authorities mentioned that cooperation between Greenland and Denmark could be the “focus” of Nielsen’s go to.
“We should help one another within the tough overseas coverage state of affairs Greenland and the Kingdom are in proper now,” mentioned Frederiksen.
US Vice President JD Vance additionally paid a go to to Greenland in March, which each Nuuk and Copenhagen seen as a provocation.
Throughout his journey to the Pituffik US navy base, Vance castigated Denmark for not having “finished a very good job by the individuals of Greenland”.
“You’ve gotten under-invested within the individuals of Greenland and you’ve got under-invested within the safety structure of this unimaginable, lovely landmass,” he instructed a press convention.
Danish Overseas Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen responded on social media: “We’re open to criticisms, however let me be utterly trustworthy, we don’t recognize the tone during which it is being delivered.”
Nielsen himself mentioned that “america is not going to get Greenland”.
“We do not belong to anybody else. We resolve our personal future,” he added in a Fb publish.
Throughout his go to to Copenhagen, which is able to final two days, Nielsen may even meet Denmark’s King Frederik and representatives of the Danish parliament.
In a separate assertion, Denmark’s Royal Home mentioned the king would then accompany Nielsen again to Greenland for a go to to the Arctic island.
Polls present a overwhelming majority of Greenland’s 57,000 individuals wish to change into impartial from Denmark however don’t want to change into a part of the US.
