Nivi Rosing was up early on Friday morning to participate in a so-called simultaneous meeting with the Foreign Policy Committee in the Danish Parliament at 5 am.
Rosing is a member of Inatsisartut's Foreign and Security Policy Committee, which is now briefed simultaneously with the Foreign Policy Committee in the Folketing when the meetings concern Greenland:
- These are confidential meetings, so I can't say anything from the meeting itself. But I will say that we finally have simultaneous meetings when it comes to Greenland.
- Pipaluk Lynge's demand that we have the same information has helped, says the committee member.
Strange dialogue over social media
After this morning's meeting, Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that there had been another meeting about Greenland in Washington on Thursday.
He also said that the situation between the three countries is now back to the starting point that was reached just over a week ago, when Løkke and Naalakkersuisoq Vivian Motzfeldt had a meeting with US Vice President J.D. Vance and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Here, the parties agreed to establish a working group.
Question: Are you relieved that it has come down to that level and that Trump has removed the threat of, among other things, military force?
- It's a good thing, because it's been happening over social media for a long time with this strange dialogue. It's good to meet face-to-face, says Nivi Rosing and continues:
- We met with senators from the United States last week, and it was reassuring to have a dialogue face to face instead of over social media. You come with humility from all sides, you want to have a dialogue and it's on respectful terms.
Maybe more monitoring
Nivi Rosing now hopes for better dialogue with the Americans and that Trump's claim about Russians and Chinese in Greenlandic waters can be refuted:
- I hope we can come to the conclusion that there might be some more surveillance. Personally, I hope it will be placed in uninhabited places.
- It could be an extra radar to show that there are no Russians and Chinese in Greenlandic waters, as he keeps mentioning. The strange idea must be disproven. That is my personal opinion, says Nivi Rosing.
She also hopes that Trump will start to respect that Greenland cannot be bought:
- I hope he can understand that we from Greenland do not want to be bought, neither by the USA nor any other country. We are not a product that can be bought.
Great unity across parties
She believes that the many demonstrations last weekend have shown that a large part of the population does not want to be bought:
- I hope it can create good dialogue and generate respect.
Question: What has it been like to be at the center of it all as a politician?
- I would like to say that I am really happy that we in the parties have put our party colors aside and shown great unity.
- I also feel that the entire population has supported me, and it's something like that makes it all a little easier and gives me strength.
