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Source: AFP
Greenland's premier minister, Mute Egede, accused Washington connected Monday of interfering successful its governmental 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 sojourn Greenland this week, on with Usha Vance, the woman of US Vice President JD Vance.
Usha Vance was to be a dogsled contention with her son.
Greenlandic media reports said the delegation besides included US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a erstwhile mining executive.
They showed images of 2 US Hercules planes connected the tarmac astatine Nuuk airdrome arsenic portion of an beforehand information squad dispatched to the immense Arctic island.
Speaking to Greenlandic regular Sermitiaq, Egede said the "only intent of the sojourn was a objection of power, and the awesome should not beryllium misunderstood".
Since returning to powerfulness successful January, Trump has insisted helium wants the United States to instrumentality implicit Greenland for what helium says are nationalist information purposes.
He has refused to regularisation retired the usage of unit to execute that aim.
Greenland -- which is seeking to emancipate itself from Copenhagen -- and Denmark itself person some repeatedly rebuffed Trump, insisting that lone Greenlanders can determine their future.
Egede said Washington had antecedently been told determination would beryllium "no talks" connected immoderate taxable until a caller Greenlandic authorities was successful spot to behaviour business.
The wide predetermination connected March 11 near him heading a caretaker government.
'Aggressive move'
"It should beryllium said intelligibly that our integrity and ideology indispensable beryllium respected without overseas interference," Egede said successful a station connected Facebook.
He added that the US delegation's sojourn "cannot beryllium seen arsenic conscionable a backstage visit".
"(Waltz) is Trump's confidant and closest advisor, and his beingness successful Greenland unsocial volition surely marque the Americans judge successful Trump's mission, and the unit volition summation aft the visit," Egede told Sermitsiaq.
Jens-Frederik Nielsen -- person of the centre-right Democrats and apt aboriginal Greenlandic premier curate -- has antecedently criticised Trump's Greenland ambitions arsenic "inappropriate".
Egede urged the self-governing territory's Western allies to talk up and "clearly enactment and backmost up Greenland".
Ulrik Pram Gad of the Danish Institute for International Studies called the sojourn an "aggressive move" by Washington.
"They haven't been invited by Greenlanders. They haven't been invited by the Danes. They conscionable announced that they volition go," helium told AFP.
Greenland's governmental parties are presently successful the process of negotiating a caller conjugation authorities pursuing the election, which the Democrats won.
"Normally, arsenic a person oregon ally, you would enactment retired of that," Pram Gad said.
He said the sojourn was aimed astatine showing that "Denmark is not successful power of Greenland".
Coveted portion
With nary officials to invited the US delegation, "they volition beryllium pushing this constituent that ok, nobody's successful power here, there's a request for america to measurement in", Pram Gad said.
He said the prime to nonstop Usha Vance was portion of a "sham" charm offensive.
She volition beryllium "saying bully things astir Greenlandic taste heritage", portion "at the aforesaid clip you nonstop a feline who's an ex-Marine successful complaint of information astatine a clip erstwhile determination is no-one to speech to successful complaint of overseas and information argumentation for Greenland".
Meanwhile, the inclusion of Chris Wright "sends the awesome that we're aft resources here", helium said.
Greenland holds monolithic untapped mineral and lipid reserves, including uncommon earths important to the greenish modulation and seen arsenic a imaginable springboard to independence.
Oil and uranium exploration are banned, however, and determination are lone 2 progressive mines owed to the complexity of mining successful the inhospitable climate.
Greenland is besides strategically located successful the Arctic betwixt North America and Europe, with rising US, Chinese and Russian involvement successful the portion arsenic clime alteration opens up shipping routes antecedently covered by ice.
According to opinion polls, astir of the island's 57,000 inhabitants of Greenland enactment independency from Denmark but not annexation by Washington.
Trump's son, Donald Jr, besides made a sojourn of respective hours to Greenland successful aboriginal January.
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Source: AFP
