Denmark blasts US delegation's visit to Greenland amid Trump’s takeover threats
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark says a planned visit by a US delegation to Greenland puts “unacceptable pressure” on the autonomous island, amid President Donald Trump’s threats to take over the territory “one way or the other.”
A delegation led by Usha Vance, the wife of US Vice President JD Vance, is due to travel to Greenland on March 27, according to a statement from the White House.
US national security adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright will also be in company.
The controversial visits, presented as private, have sparked anger in Copenhagen, with Frederiksen saying on Tuesday that this is “clearly not a visit that is about what Greenland needs or wants.”
“That’s why I have to say that the pressure being put on Greenland and Denmark in this situation is unacceptable.”
“And it’s pressure we will resist,” she said.
Frederiksen also slammed Washington for having “organized a private visit with official representatives of another country.”
President Trump said Monday that the visit was no such thing.
“It’s purely friendship,” he said, and claimed that officials in Greenland had in fact invited the US delegation.
The island’s outgoing Prime Minister Mute Egede, however, described the visits as a “provocation” and “highly aggressive.”
The government of Greenland said in a statement that it “has not extended any invitations for any visits, neither private nor official.”
“We are now at a level where this cannot in any way be characterized as a harmless visit from a politician’s wife,” Prime Minister Egede said Monday.
“The only purpose is to demonstrate power over us,” he added.
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