The Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, announced this Saturday that Greenland will visit next week to meet with the new government of this Danish autonomous territory object of interest in the last months of the United States.
Frederiksen will be on this Arctic Island from April 2 to 4 and will discuss “the collaboration between Groenland and Denmark” with the Executive out of the elections of March 11 that heads the liberal Jens-Frederik Nielsen and was presented this Friday.
“I look forward to continuing the close collaboration and full of confidence between Greenland and Denmark together with Jens-Frederik Nielsen and the rest of the Naalakkersuisut (Government),” indicates in a statement released this Saturday by the office of the Prime Minister.
Frederiksen has stressed that Greenland has just passed through a democratic process and has formed government, so it is important to travel there “as quickly as possible.”
“I have the greatest respect for how the people and Greenlands politicians have handled the great pressure about Greenland. It is a situation that asks for union of all political parties and all the countries of the Commonwealth of the Kingdom (which also includes the Feroe Islands), and cooperation in a respectful and equal way,” he said.
The US interest grows
It will be the first time that Frederiksen travels to Greenland since the US president Donald Trump recovered three months ago his former idea of ”getting” with the island, which he has repeated several times in recent months, adducing security reasons and insinuating reprisals to Copenhagen if he does not access.
The American vice president, JD Vance, visited the American Base of Pittufik, in the northwest of the island on Friday with his wife and other members of the Trump administration.
The visit occurred days after a trip from his wife, Usha Vance, Nuuk (capital) and Sisimiut was canceled, where he was going to attend a sled race with dogs, after the criticisms of Danish and Greenic executives for traveling at a time when Greenland had no government after the recent elections.
At the end of his visit to Pituffik, Vance criticized Denmark for not having done a “good job” on the island and said that Greenlanders should be more part of the United States.
“What we believe will happen is that the Greenlanders will choose to be independent of Denmark, and then we will have conversations with them from there. I think that talking about something too distant in the future is too premature,” he said.
The Danish Prime Minister described shortly after “unfair” Vance’s criticism, while his Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen described them as “inappropriate” and urged the United States to “look in the mirror.”
Hours before Vance’s visit, Nielsen – whose party, Demokraatit, won the elections with 29.9% – had presented a wide government that groups four of the five games with parliamentary representation and all moderate independence.
The new executive maintains the plan of the previous government that a parliamentary commission, created two years ago, studies the legal path towards independence, in accordance with the new Statute of Autonomy of 2009, which recognizes the right to self -determination through a referendum.
The agreement also highlights the need to establish negotiations with Denmark to review the statute with the objective of “creating a renewed and modern framework for future collaboration.”
