Media: Heavy discussion at Teams meeting between Nuuk and Copenhagen - chairman wants to improve communication

The situation surrounding the United States' interest in Greenland is tense, and this was expressed at a meeting on Tuesday between Danish and Greenlandic politicians on the communication platform Teams.

DR writes that the meeting left a number of Danish members of parliament deeply shaken, and Greenlandic members of parliament even more furious, which was exactly the opposite of what was intended.

The meeting was arranged by Christian Friis Bach, chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee in the Folketing, and among the meeting participants from Greenland was Pipaluk Lynge (IA), chairman of Inatsisartut's Foreign and Security Policy Committee.

At the meeting, Pipaluk Lynge harshly criticized the Folketing for its lack of involvement in connection with a closed meeting on the US situation, which was to be held later Tuesday evening in a secured room at Christiansborg.

Have requested secure connections

According to DR's information, this led to several heated exchanges, and Christian Friis Bach tells DR that he will not report on the meeting, but that he is listening to the frustration from the Greenlandic parliamentarians.

Christian Friis Bach informs DR that on Wednesday he wrote to the Speaker of the Folketing, Søren Gade, to establish a secure connection between the three foreign policy committees in the Commonwealth - Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands:

- So that we can have confidential conversations, and so that we can also share more information. I have also requested that we share the international information we have here in the Folketing more actively with our colleagues in Greenland and the Faroe Islands, he tells DR.