“We need” Greenland, said US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, March 26, after Washington's decision, hailed by Denmark, to limit the visit to his delegation in Danish autonomous territory. “I don't like to say it like that, but we'll have it” Taking possession of the immense Arctic territory, added Donald Trump, in an interview with the podcaster Vince Coglianese, two days before the visit of the vice-president JD Vance in Greenland.
These statements are likely to stir up the anger of the Greenlandic government and Denmark, which had already strongly criticized the unsolicited arrival of a high-level delegation with the announced arrival of the wife of JD Vance, for a traine dog race, the deployment of a safety avant with armored vehicles in Nuuk or the possible visit of the national security advisor Mike Waltz.
Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, was delighted on Wednesday of the change of program for the trip of American officials to Greenland, including vice president, JD Vance. The latter must now focus on visiting their Pituffik space base, a base of the American army branch dedicated to space, “To be informed of the subjects linked to the security of the Arctic” And meeting the troops, Washington on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the Danish and Greenlandic governments insurgent of the announced trip of the American delegation in several places in the Danish autonomous territory coveted by Donald Trump. This trip was organized out of any official Greenlandic invitation, when Greenland is awaiting a new government.
“I think it is very positive for the Americans to cancel their visit to the Groenlander company. Instead, they will visit their own base, Pituffik, and we have nothing against ”said Lokke Rasmussen on Danish public radio dr.
“A masterful pirouette”, according to the chief of Groenlandian diplomacy
The Greenlandic government had expressed the arrival of the national security advisor Mike Waltz and, according to the American press, of the Minister of Energy, Chris Wright. This will not be the case, according to Mr. Lokke Rasmussen.
“Cars [de la délégation américaine] Who were delivered a few days ago are being brought home, and the wife of the US vice-president and his security advisor will not visit in the Groenlandaise company “said the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs. “The case is being completed, and it's positive”he added. “I am the Minister of Foreign Affairs, so I must speak in a diplomatic way, but in many ways it is a masterful pirouette to make a climbing believe, when it is actually a de -escalation”according to him.
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Since December and Donald Trump's first announcements on his intention to acquire the immense Arctic Island, Greenland underlines that it is not for sale, but “Open to business”.
Source: Lemonde