The Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, has landed this Wednesday in the capital of Greenland, Nuuk, amid tensions with Washington. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has shown in recent months his desire to annex this territory, under the sovereignty of Denmark.
“The United States will not be done with Greenland. Greenland is from the Greenlands. And that will be the message we will send together for the next two days.” He has noted on his arrival. Frederiksen has been received at the airport by the outgoing prime minister, Mute Egede, in which it is His first visit to the territory since the Trump administration intensified its rhetoric to seize the island, with rich mineral deposits.
The Danish Prime Minister plans to meet with the elected prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, as well as with Egede a few days after the Democrats leader won the elections and closed a coalition agreement to four with the leftist Inuit Ataqatigiit and Siumut and the liberal inksut.
The fact that Frederiksen Visit Greenlandia before the new Parliament has been officially constituted has caused discomfort within the future government. The chosen one to be Foreign Minister of Greenland, Vivian Motzfeldt, has considered the trip of the Danish Prime Minister inopportune.
“A head of state comes to meet his counterpart. There is still no new official government,” said Motzfeldt, of the Siumut party. After these controversial statements, it was removed by Nielsen from the future government, according to the newspaper Berlingske.
Frederiksen’s visit also produces days after the US vice president, JD Vancewill ensure from the Pituffik space base that the United States will negotiate the adhesion of the territory once it becomes independent of Denmark through a self -determination referendum.
“There have been many criticisms from Denmark, many attacks against the Trump administration, against the president, against me and other members of our administration for saying the obvious: that Denmark has not done a good job in maintaining the security of Greenland,” he said.
Nielsen has formed a wide coalition between his party and the other three cited formations to govern the region, which depends on Denmark, although with a high degree of political autonomy for its 57,000 inhabitants. Areas such as Foreign Affairs and Defense are exclusive competence of Copenhagen.
According to the newspaper The Washington PostThe White House is compiling how much it cost to acquire and manage Greenland. This implies another clear demonstration of the president’s will for taking the autonomous territory controlled Denmark.
According to the newspaper, the presidential office is studying the economic offer that could be raised to the Greenlandes to accept to be part of the US, the cost that would be to provide federal services in the territory, and even estimate the income that the exploitation of its natural resources would imply, mainly minerals.
