Usha Vance, the spouse of US vice-president JD Vance, will journey to Greenland this week as President Donald Trump clings to the thought of a US annexation of the strategic, semi-autonomous Danish territory.
Vance will go to Greenland on Thursday with a US delegation to tour historic websites, be taught in regards to the territory’s heritage and attend the nationwide dogsled race, the White Home mentioned in an announcement.
The delegation will return to the US on 29 March. The White Home nationwide safety adviser, Mike Waltz, and the vitality secretary, Chris Wright, can even journey to Greenland, visiting a US army base in Greenland, a US official mentioned. The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Trump has made US annexation of Greenland a serious speaking level since taking workplace for a second time on 20 January and has mentioned it’ll change into a part of the US “someway”.
Talking on Sunday to the Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq, Greenland’s prime minister, Múte Egede, mentioned the go to by Waltz was a “provocation”.
“The one objective is to indicate an indication of energy to us, and the sign is to not be misunderstood,” he mentioned. “He’s Trump’s confidential and closest adviser, and his presence in Greenland alone will definitely make the People consider in Trump’s mission, and the stress will improve after the go to.”
Greenland’s strategic location and wealthy mineral assets may benefit the US. It lies alongside the shortest route from Europe to North America – very important for the US ballistic missile warning system.
The governments of each Greenland and Denmark have voiced opposition to such a transfer.
The Greenlandic authorities, which is in a caretaker interval after a 11 March normal election received by a celebration that favours a sluggish strategy to independence from Denmark, didn’t reply to requests for feedback.
The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, mentioned in a written remark reacting to information of the go to that “that is one thing we take significantly”. She mentioned Denmark wished to cooperate with the US but it surely ought to be cooperation primarily based on “the elemental guidelines of sovereignty”.
She added that the dialogue with the US concerning Greenland would happen in shut coordination with the Danish authorities and the long run Greenlandic authorities.
With Reuters
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