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President Emmanuel Macron said that France would be available for joint exercises to improve security in Greenland, reputed by US President Donald Trump.
“Greenland is subject to reducing ambitions,” Macron told reporters in NuuuK, Greenland with Danish Prime Minister Met Fredericseen on Sunday. “Everyone thinks – in France and in the European Union – that Greenland will neither be sold nor taken.”
The French President said that an American attachment would be a “crazy” landscape and would be called for joint exercises in the Arctic sector, including Baltic and Nordic states, along with Canada and even with America.
The US President has cited national security to acquire a semi-lover island and criticized Denmark for not making sufficient investment in defense of the region, with a strategic place to North Atlantic and Arctic. It is already home to an American air base and is used to detect radar station missile threats and monitor space.
Trump recently said that he would get “100%” island – he first swims to add an idea in 2019.
Macron and Trump are set to cross the route at a group of seven leaders in Canada, which begins on Monday. There, leaders are expected to discuss conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, but to issue a statement about important minerals, which are present in huge amounts in Greenland.
Macron said that he would bring out the issue with Trump at the G -7 meeting.
Macron, who often puts himself as a protector of European sovereignty, is joining a chorus of leaders on the continent who has opposed Trump’s ambitions on the island.
Trump’s comments have also been criticized by Greenlanders and Danes and by German Chancellor Frederick Mars on receiving the island. While Merz did not travel with Macron on Sunday, he met Danish leader Met Fredericksen earlier this week in Berlin and said he was standing on the banks of Denmark.
Macron is trying to capitalize on her long relations with her American counterpart, while criticizing some of Trump’s policies. Earlier this year, Macron urged the US-based scientists to cut cost cuts to move to Europe. Last week, he said that Greenland, Arctic and deep sea were “not for sale” – a veil in Trump, whose administration is promoting deep maritime mining in international water.
Macron said, “The situation in Greenland clearly is a wakeup call for all Europeans,” Macron said, who also suggested to open a French consulate on the region. “You are not alone.”
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