- It gives hopes that there will be more dialogue, and that is what I have been hoping for. Then you have to take it from there, says Pipaluk Lynge (IA), chairman of Inatsisartut's Foreign and Security Policy Committee, to Sermitsiaq.
She is reacting to the fact that on Wednesday there was a temporary culmination of the intense pressure that the US president has put on Greenland and the Kingdom by his statements that the US should take over the country.
After the meeting with the American Vice President J.D. Vance and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, naalakkersuisoq Vivian Motzfeldt (S) and Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen could tell that there is a fundamental disagreement about Greenland, but that a so-called high-level group must try to clarify the problems.
Have received information from NATO
The meeting result gives Pipaluk Lynge hope in the midst of the highly tense situation:
- It is reassuring and hopeful that there has been dialogue, because we have missed it, and it signals that we can now talk together. That is the most important thing, she says, and emphasizes that Greenland must invest in the working group:
- We must hope for the best and bet on the working group that is to be launched.
Pipaluk Lynge says that the Foreign and Security Policy Committee has just received a briefing from Nato on the situation in Greenland, and here the committee has also underestimated the coalition's support for Naalakkersuisut:
- It has been much needed, and it has been good to talk to someone who has their finger on the pulse, so that we can follow what Nato can give us, and we could also give them that the coalition fully supports Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Vivian Motzfeldt, she says and continues:
- I think it is very important as a parliamentarian to also pass that message on at parliamentary level, and therefore I am also happy to have to meet with American senators tomorrow together with the Foreign Policy Committee in the Danish Parliament.
Concern about Chinese and Russian ships should be addressed
The meeting with the American senators takes place in Copenhagen on Friday, and Pipaluk Lynge says that the committee is on its way to Denmark.
- We parliamentarians do what we can in this situation, via the channels we have with our allies, she explains.
On Wednesday it also emerged that in the coming time there will be military exercises and international military reinforcements will arrive in Greenland.
Pipaluk Lynge is willing that work must now be done to find a solution to the concerns that have been expressed on the American side, which in her assessment can also contribute to increased security in Greenland
- I think we have a task as elected representatives to compromise with NATO and the USA, so that we can find a solution together to this concern.
- If there is concern about whether there are Chinese and Russian ships, then monitoring is needed to see if there are any ships at all and things like that.
- It will provide a form of security when we know what is and what is not.
