Dane Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen plans to visit Greenland next week to strengthen the community between the two countries, while the US intensifies its rhetoric about the taking of Arctic Island.
Frederiksen will start a three-day excursion on April 2, during which he will meet with the new Greenland Prime Minister-Jens-Frederik Nielsen-and members of his coalition government, his Copenhagen Office said in a statement on Saturday.
The trip takes place shortly after a visit by US Vice President Jd Vance on Friday to the US military base in the northwest of the country, where he repeated the allegations that Denmark was a bad ally for Greenland and that the island is vital to US national security. A vast majority of the population is against Greenland to become part of the US.
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“I have the deepest respect for how Greenland people and politicians are dealing with great pressure on Greenland,” Frederiksen said in the statement. “The situation requires unity among political parties; between community countries; and respectfully and egalitarian cooperation.”
Greenland has been part of the kingdom of Denmark for centuries, but has its own government since 1979. Most political parties in Greenland seek the total independence of Denmark, although they disagree with the schedule.
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The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, also rejected US projects to Arctic Island, saying that Greenland “deserves partners who respect and treat them as equals.”
“We are firmly with Greenland and Denmark. We strongly support its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and its right to trace its own course,” von der Leyen told the Italian newspaper Corriere della in an interview.
