Tuesday was there again meeting in the Danish Parliament's Foreign Policy Committee on "The Kingdom's relationship with the USA" as the only item on the agenda.
The meeting was attended by both Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M) and Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen (V).
The meetings are confidential, so what the members can say is limited, but after the meeting Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that vice-president J.D. Vance was scheduled to host the meeting, which is taking place along with foreign affairs secretary Vivian Motzfeldt and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Wednesday.
More clues to follow
Member of Parliament for Inuit Ataqatigiit Aaja Chemnitz also attended the meeting of the Foreign Policy Council and subsequently told Sermitsiaq that it was important to be ready to follow several tracks depending on how the meeting with Rubio and Vance developed:
- It is an important and large political meeting that will take place in Washington tomorrow. There are still many of us who cheer for you to follow the diplomatic track, but at the same time we are also aware of the ongoing threat we face, and therefore it is important that we can move in several tracks, says Aaja Chemnitz.
Need for preparedness
According to Aaja Chemnitz, there should be a contingency plan in place quickly in Greenland.
- The population must feel safe. Many have already started to prepare, and that is really positive. But it is also important that Naalakkersuisut is of course in the saddle, so that there will be some announcements from the public in relation to what to buy and how to prepare.
- I would also like to say that it is incredibly important that when you see military personnel in the street scene, it is to look after us and protect us in this situation. And it is also about the fact that there is a task to have a defense in Greenland in general, and we must support that.
- At the same time, we have to be careful that there is too much Facebook politics in it these days. It is Naalakkersuisut that sets the direction and the rest of us do what we can to back it up, says Aaja Chemnitz.
