There is a desire from the Greenlandic side for more powers over foreign policy and to be able to speak Greenland's case in foreign policy to a greater extent without having representatives from Denmark involved.
This is what the newly elected Greenlandic member of parliament Naaja Nathanielsen from the IA party says to DR.
- It matters whether we have support wheels when we hold meetings with other countries, she tells the media, adding that it is about giving Greenland "the power we need to conduct our policy".
According to the Constitution and the Self-Government Act, it is the Danish government that handles foreign policy matters on behalf of the Commonwealth.
The request for more powers on foreign policy is being presented before the North Atlantic members of parliament are to hold meetings on Tuesday with the royal investigator Mette Frederiksen, who is trying to form a government after last week's general election.
The government negotiations began in earnest on Friday.
Here there were initial meetings, i.e. preliminary negotiations, at the Prime Minister's Office, where seven parties visited Mette Frederiksen.
These were the SF, the Unity List, the Radicals, the Alternative, the Moderates, the Liberals and the Conservatives.
Government negotiations will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday at Marienborg, the prime minister's official residence.
On Tuesday morning, acting prime minister Mette Frederiksen will also hold bilateral meetings with the North Atlantic mandates, which in addition to the two Greenlandic mandates include two Faroese.
In addition, the Unity Party informed TV 2 on Tuesday morning that the party will also meet with Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday.
According to the party, this will take place at 2 p.m. at Marienborg.
The Kingdom's foreign policy has particularly concerned Greenland in connection with repeated threats from US President Donald Trump to take over Greenland.
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Motzfeldt played a role in the diplomatic process that was intended to try to mend the differences with the US.
In January, she was in Washington D.C. together with Denmark's Foreign Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M).
Here they met with US Vice President J.D. Vance and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Whether Naaja Nathanielsen, in her interview with DR on Tuesday, believes that such a meeting should have been held without Lars Løkke Rasmussen and thus a Danish representative, is not clear from the article.
Qarsoq Høegh-Dam, N, has also been elected to the Folketing.
He has previously expressed his expectation that Greenland can present one united voice and one set of demands to the future Danish government, regardless of what it may look like.
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