NOTE: The article has been updated with quotes from Aaja Chemnitz saying that Jeff Landry is going to Avannaata Qimussersua.
Donald Trump's special envoy to Greenland, Jeff Landry, plans to visit Greenland in March, he says in an interview with Fox News.
This is written by Reuters.
The visit is confirmed by Greenlandic member of parliament Aaja Chemnitz (IA). According to her, Landry is going to the annual dog sled race.
So must Chemnitz too. And she even takes the Liberal Party's Greenland speaker, Louise Elholm, to Greenland in that connection, says Chemnitz.
- We do what we can. But it is also up to Naalakkersuisut how to deal with it, says Chemnitz to Ritzau, referring to the Greenlandic government.
Will he meet with Naalakkersuisut?
Chemnitz has criticized that Trump wants ownership of Greenland. It is Trump who has appointed Landry to the newly created post. She does not expect that Landry will be greeted with open arms by the Greenlanders.
When the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, and the American second lady Usha Vance visited Greenland last year, Usha Vance was supposed to go to the dog sled race, but the Vance couple changed plans and she did not come to the dog sled race. This happened, among other things, after various protests over the visit.
It is too early to say whether Chemnitz or the Greenlandic government will meet with Jeff Landry in March, says Chemnitz to TV 2.
Landry says on Friday that he believes that an agreement can be reached between the parties.
- I think that there is an agreement that should and will be concluded when this happens, he says in the interview on Friday.
Landry: Trump is serious
The announcement comes at the same time as an American delegation of politicians is visiting Christiansborg on Friday.
According to Reuters, Trump's special envoy also emphasizes that Trump is serious when it comes to demands for Greenland.
- He (Trump, ed.) has told Denmark what he is looking for, and now it is about getting Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance to make a deal, says Jeff Landry.
Has relayed Trumps demands several times
The special envoy has several times passed on Trump's demand that the US should have Greenland.
He did this on Thursday, among other things, in a post on the social media X, where he repeated that Greenland is crucial for the security of Americans.
- The threats posed by hostile nations today require decisive American action in the Arctic, Landry wrote on X.
