“INTERNATIONAL PEACE”
“I believe we’d like that for worldwide peace, and if we do not have that it is a massive menace to our world. So I believe Greenland is essential for worldwide peace,” Trump advised reporters on Thursday throughout a press convention alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Retailer.
In an announcement asserting the go to, the Danish authorities stated 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 scenario Greenland and the Kingdom are in proper now,” stated Frederiksen.
US Vice President JD Vance additionally paid a go to to Greenland in March, which each Nuuk and Copenhagen considered as a provocation.
Throughout his journey to the Pituffik US navy base, Vance castigated Denmark for not having “carried out a very good job by the individuals of Greenland”.
“You’ve under-invested within the individuals of Greenland and you’ve got under-invested within the safety structure of this unbelievable, lovely landmass,” he advised a press convention.
Danish Overseas Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen responded on social media: “We’re open to criticisms, however let me be fully trustworthy, we don’t admire the tone during which it is being delivered.”
Nielsen himself stated that “the US is not going to get Greenland”.
“We do not belong to anybody else. We determine our personal future,” he added in a Fb publish.
Throughout his go to to Copenhagen, which can final two days, Nielsen will even meet Denmark’s King Frederik and representatives of the Danish parliament.
In a separate assertion, Denmark’s Royal Home stated 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 develop into unbiased from Denmark however don’t want to develop into a part of the US.
