Second lady Usha Vance to visit Greenland as Trump pushes for ownership of the Danish territory
The White House announced on Sunday, to become the latest US official to visit to Greenland this week. Danish lands President Donald Trump also calls for ownership of ownership.
Energy Minister Chris Wright and National Security Adviser Mayhow Waltis Vice President’s wife, Vice -President, will join as part of the American delegation, two sources of administration have been confirmed to NBC news.
The White House said that Vans, who takes one of its two sons, will visit historical sites, learn about the green heritage and attend a national race for dogs. The trip will start on Thursday.
Officials on the trip will start as Trump sharpen his proposal, which lasted years ago to seize Greenland, a mineral -rich island that includes an American military base in an area of the growing geopolitical importance.
Vans said in a video clip On Sunday, her visit will double as an effort to celebrate and enhance “long history of mutual respect and cooperation between” the United States and Greenland.
New York Times I mentioned for the first time Vans.
The visit of the American delegation, the outgoing Prime Minister of Greenland, has attracted Múte B. egede, who wondered whether the journey was a presentation of the force aimed at intimidating local leaders.
“We are now on an unimaginable level as an unavoidable visit from a political wife,” He said thenATional newspaper Sremitsiaq Sunday. “What does the Greenland security advisor do? The only purpose is to show an offer to power for us, and the sign should not be understood.”
White House representatives and the Ministry of Energy did not immediately respond to the suspension requests.
Trump put forward the idea of buying Greenland during his first term in office, but he recently became more aggressive in making the stadium. Greenland’s ownership was called “absolute necessity” Declared exclusion Using military force to acquire it.
“We need Greenland for national security. One way or another we will get it,” he said in his speech in a joint session of Congress this month.
He presented a similar reason during an oval office meeting with NATO Secretary -General Mark Retti this month, when he suggested that the military alliance should help its efforts to include the region.
“We have a lot of our favorite players around the coast, and we have to be careful,” Trump said. “I think this is the reason that NATO may be, they should somehow, because we really need Greenland for national security.”
Greenland is a semi -living area in Denmark, and it is a member of NATO.
Greenland and Danish leaders I constantly refused Trump’s suggestion.
In January, Donald Trump JuniorAccompanied by the right -wing influencer Charlie Kerk, he traveled to Greenland to visit his father. He described him as supporting a “A deal that must happen.”
