On Tuesday, there was another meeting in the Foreign Policy Committee of the Folketing with "The Kingdom's relations with the USA" as the only item on the agenda.
The meeting was attended by both Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M) and Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen (V).
The meetings are confidential, so there is a limit to what members can say, but after the meeting, Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that Vice President J.D. Vance would host the meeting, which will take place together with Greenland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Motzfeldt and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Wednesday.
More leads to follow
Member of Parliament for Inuit Ataqatigiit Aaja Chemnitz also participated in the meeting of the Foreign Policy Committee and subsequently told Sermitsiaq that it was important to be ready to follow several leads 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 are cheering for the diplomatic track to be followed, 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 directions, says Aaja Chemnitz.
Need for preparedness
According to Aaja Chemnitz, a contingency plan should be put in place in Greenland quickly.
– The population must feel safe. Many have already started preparing, and that is really positive. But it is also important that the Greenlandic Government of course stays on its toes, so that there are some announcements from the public sector 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 on the streets, it is to look after us and protect us in this situation. And it is also about the fact that there is a task of having a defense in Greenland in general, and we must support that.
- At the same time, we must be careful not to let too much Facebook politics get involved these days. It is the Government of Greenland that sets the direction and the rest of us do what we can to support it, says Aaja Chemnitz.
