U.S. Officials’ Planned Visit to Greenland Is Inappropriate: Denmark
Protests agains U.S. plans in Greenland. X/ @TrendingAm67276
March 25, 2025 Hour: 8:16 am
If they don’t clearly condemn the U.S. treatment of Greenland, the situation will escalate every day, President Egede warned.
On Monday, the Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said that the planned visit of senior U.S. officials, including the National Security Adviser, to Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory once openly coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump, is “inappropriate.”
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“This shows an appetite among Americans that is inappropriate,” he told local broadcaster TV2, referring to the planned visit this week by U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, along with Usha Vance, the wife of U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
Lokke noted that the visit was particularly untimely as “there have just been elections in Greenland and there is no Greenlandic government.”
The visit has drawn strong criticism from Greenlandic politicians. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also expressed concerns on Sunday, emphasizing that any cooperation must be grounded in mutual respect and sovereignty.
“The visit from the U.S. cannot be seen independently of the public statements that have been made. In the Kingdom of Denmark, we want to cooperate with the Americans. But it must be a cooperation that rests on the fundamental values of sovereignty and respect between countries and peoples,” Frederiksen said in a written statement.
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump defended the visit of an American delegation to Greenland. “This is a show of friendship, not a provocation. We’re dealing with many people in Greenland who want to see measures taken so that they are properly protected and cared for,” he said and announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would also be visiting Greenland.
Despite Trump’s words, Greenland’s autonomous president, Mute B. Egede, expressed his opposition to the visit of the U.S. delegation and called for international support in the face of Washington’s behavior.
“If they don’t clearly condemn the United States’ treatment of Greenland, the situation will escalate every day, and U.S. aggression will increase,” Egede said, emphasizing that the visit can only be interpreted as a “show of power, without any room for misunderstanding.”
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Source: Xinhua – EFE
