NUUK: US Vice President JD Vance will go to Greenland on Friday (Mar 28) at a time when President Donald Trump is renewing his insistence that Washington should take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
In a scaled-back model of a visit plan that had angered authorities in each Greenland and Denmark, Vance was anticipated to fly to the US navy base at Pituffik within the north of the Arctic island.
Broadcaster TV2 mentioned the delegation was scheduled to land at round 1530 GMT. Pituffik is situated alongside the shortest route from Europe to North America and is significant for the US ballistic missile warning system.
Below the phrases of a 1951 settlement, the US is entitled to go to its base every time it needs, so long as it notifies Greenland and Copenhagen.
The preliminary plan had been for Vance’s spouse, Usha, to go to a well-liked dog-sled race on the island along with nationwide safety adviser Mike Waltz, despite the fact that they weren’t invited by authorities in both Greenland or Denmark.
Waltz, who’s going through strain over Trump administration officers’ dialogue of delicate Houthi assault plans on the Sign messaging app, will nonetheless be on the Greenland journey, in keeping with a White Home supply.
US Power Secretary Chris Wright may even be part of, TV2 reported, citing nameless sources.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen known as the preliminary plans for the US go to “unacceptable”. Overseas Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen later welcomed information of the revised go to as a optimistic, de-escalating step.
Greenland’s performing Prime Minister Mute Egede known as the go to a provocation on Monday, because the nation has not but fashioned a brand new authorities after a Mar 11 election. He spoke earlier than the US modified the plans for the go to.
Nonetheless, some residents in Greenland’s capital Nuuk remained indignant on the Trump administration forward of Vance’s go to.
“I’m a human. People usually are not on the market. We’re not on the market,” Tungutaq Larsen, a filmmaker, instructed Reuters.
