AFP :
French President Emmanuel Macron is to visit Greenland on Sunday to ensure there is “no preying” on the autonomous Danish territory, the first such trip by a foreign leader since US President Donald Trump’s threats to seize it.
“I’m going to say: ‘We’re here, and we’re ready to reinvest ourselves so that there is no preying'” on it, Macron said a few days ahead of his trip. Trump has repeatedly said the US needs the strategically located, resource-rich Arctic island for security reasons, and has refused to rule out the use of force to secure it.
A majority in Greenland favours independence in the long term, and both Danish and Greenlandic leaders have insisted that the autonomous territory must decide its own future. They have repeatedly said Washington “will never get Greenland”.
The deep sea, Greenland and Antarctica are “not for sale”, Macron said on Monday at a UN oceans summit, remarks clearly directed at Trump’s expansionist claims.
