A great visit to the symbol. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, promises to send a strong signal to Donald Trump visiting this Sunday, June 15, Greenland, Autonomous Dinamarca territory coveted by the White House tenant.
“I’m going to say: ‘We are there, and we are ready to reinvest ourselves so that there is predation,” he said a few days before his visit.
“ABYSS is not on sale, since Greenland must be taken,” he had already hit Monday at the UN top in the oceans in Nice.
A “at the request” trip of local authorities
Emmanuel Macron will be the first foreign state of state to go there from the threats of annexation of the US president. Donald Trump, invoking reasons of “international security”, promises to take possession of this vast territory of the Arctic “in one way or another”, without excluding the use of force.
Greenland is rich in mining resources, particularly in rare metals, and is on the path of new maritime routes, due to global warming, which gives it an important strategic importance.
Unlike the American vice president JD Vance, whose visit on March 28 on the island had been perceived as a provocation, Emmanuel Macron makes this trip “by invitation” of the Danish and Greenland authorities, insists on the French presidency.
The trip of the French president is “a sign in itself that is held at the request of the Danish and Greenland authorities,” says the Elysée.
Emmanuel Macron will carry a message of “European solidarity and support for sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Greenland, the elysée continues.
Fonte des glaciers
It will also address the “Arctic security problems”, as well as the alarming merger of glaciers and the “stowage” of this territory to “European action” to contribute to its development, in “respect for its sovereignty.”
Faced with American Aims, Denmark has announced that he will dedicate two billion euros to strengthening the Arctic security, a strategic area due to Russian and American proximity, and the North Atlantic.
The Head of State, who will stop there on the road to the G7 summit in Canada, will make three sequences around the capital, Nuuk. Greenland, the largest island in the world, is covered with 80% ice.
At each stage, it will be accompanied by the Prime Minister of Greenland, Jens-Frederik Nielsen and the Danish prime minister, put Frederiksen.
First it will fly on a glacier, while the Arctic is heated four times faster than the rest of the world and the fusion of ice could induce, at the current speed, an increase of 1.8 meters from the seas level.
The head of state will go to a hydroelectric station financed by the EU and then aboard a Danish helicopter holder for a political interview with the two prime ministers.
Cooperation with the EU
Unlike Denmark, Greenland is not part of the European Union, but is registered in the list of foreign territories associated with the Union.
“This will be an opportunity to mention the best possible architecture, the best possible place or the best possible cooperation scheme between the European Union and Greenland,” Elysée said.
JD Vance had accused Denmark of not having done a good job for the people of Greenland “, particularly not invested enough in the local economy and” did not assure his safety well. “Denmark the hammers that Greenland” is not on sale. “
If the main Greenlands are favorable to the independence of the territory to more or less in the long term, none supports the idea of attachment to the United States. The population (57,000 inhabitants, including more than 19,000 in the capital of Nuuk), mainly Inuit also rejects any perspective of becoming American, according to a survey published at the end of January.
G7 under tension
After his visit to Greenland, Emmanuel Macron will fly to G7, a summit in the back of strong geopolitical tensions while the military rose between Israel and Iran seems out of control.
The meeting of the greatest economic powers, from Sunday to Tuesday, is also the first to be held from the return to the power of US President Donald Trump.
The last participation of the Republican billionaire at a G7 summit in Canada in June 2018 had been explosive for saying at least. Just before the meeting, he had affirmed that Russia, excluded after the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean, is reinstated in the group. Then he had removed his signature of the final press release of the leaders, irritated by the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
Source: BFM TV
