COPENHAGEN: Greenland´s Prime Minister, Mute Egede, accused Washington on Monday of interfering in its political affairs by sending a US delegation to the Danish territory, which is coveted by US President Donald Trump.
Egede said US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz would visit Greenland this week, along with Usha Vance, the wife of US Vice President JD Vance. Usha Vance was to attend a dogsled race with her son.
Greenlandic media reports said the delegation also included US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a former mining executive. They showed images of two US Hercules planes on the tarmac at Nuuk airport over the weekend as part of an advance security team dispatched to the vast Arctic island.
Speaking to Greenlandic daily Sermitiaq, Egede said the “only purpose of the visit was a demonstration of power, and the signal should not be misunderstood”. Denmark´s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen also slammed the planned visit, telling broadcaster TV2 it showed “an appetite among Americans that is inappropriate”.
Lokke noted that, as the Americans were to visit, “there have just been elections in Greenland and there is no Greenlandic government”. Since returning to power in January, Trump has insisted he wants the United States to take over Greenland for what he says are national security purposes.