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(Bloomberg) – Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredericksen plans to travel to Greenland next week to increase the Commonwealth between the two countries, as the US made its rhetoric about capturing the Arctic Island.
Fredericksen will start a three-day tour on 2 April, during which he will meet the new Greenlandic Premier-Zeens-Frederick Nielson-and his coalition government members, his Copenhagen-based office said in a statement on Saturday.
The visit comes on Friday by US vice -president JD Vance on a heely shoe of a trip at the US military base in the north -western part of the country, where he reiterated that Denmark was a poor partner for Greenland and retired the claim of President Donald Trump that the island is important for American national security. A large part of the population is against Greenland being part of America.
“Greenlandic people and Greenlandic politicians are handling great pressure on Greenland,” Fredericksen said in a statement. “The situation asks for unity in political parties; in Commonwealth countries, and for cooperation in a respectable and equal way.”
Greenland has been a part of the Denmark state for centuries, but has its own government since 1979. Most political parties in Greenland want complete freedom from Denmark, although they disagree on the schedule.
European Commission Chairman Ursula von Der Leyen also pushed back on American designs on the Arctic Island, saying that Greenland “deserves the partners who respect him and as the same.”
“We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark. We strongly support their sovereignty and regional integrity, and support their right to chart our own course,” Von Der Leyen told Italy’s Courier Dela Sera newspaper in an interview.
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