Donald Trump Jr. arrived in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, for a non-public go to on Tuesday, shortly after his father, US President-elect Donald Trump, reiterated his curiosity within the resource-rich Arctic island.
Trump Jr. landed in his father’s personal airplane, “Trump Drive One,” at roughly 12:50 GMT, based on a livestream from Nuuk airport and flight monitoring web sites, Reuters reported.
The go to to the freezing, snow-covered Nuuk was anticipated to final 4 to 5 hours, with Greenlandic authorities saying no conferences had been scheduled with authorities representatives. The Danish and Greenlandic governments have each mentioned it’s a personal go to.
“We’ve got not been briefed on the character of his programme, and due to this fact this can be a personal go to,” Mininnguaq Kleist, Greenland’s minister of independence and overseas affairs, informed Reuters.
“No, I’m not shopping for Greenland,” Trump Jr. mentioned in his podcast, Triggered on Monday, referring to his father’s current feedback. “Funnily sufficient, I’m truly happening a really lengthy private day journey to Greenland.”
“We need to meet folks,” the president-elect’s son mentioned. “They appear like an ideal bunch of individuals.”
Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, is geographically a part of the North American continent, with its capital Nuuk nearer to New York than to the Danish capital, Copenhagen.
On Monday, President-elect Trump praised the island on his social media platform, Fact Social, promising to “MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
“Greenland is an unimaginable place, and the folks will profit tremendously if, and when, it turns into a part of our Nation,” he wrote. Trump added that his son was visiting Greenland to see “a few of the most opulent areas and sights.”
In 2019, Trump postponed a scheduled go to to Denmark after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dismissed his thought of the US buying Greenland.
Trump, who takes workplace on 20 January, has signalled that he’ll pursue a overseas coverage unbound by conventional diplomatic niceties. He has threatened to take management of the Panama Canal and said final month that US management of Greenland is an “absolute necessity.”
Denmark, an in depth NATO ally, has skilled worsening relations with Greenland lately, pushed by revelations of misconduct by Denmark throughout its colonial rule.
Greenland’s Prime Minister, Mute Egede, has said that the island isn’t on the market however, in his New 12 months speech, stepped up efforts to push for independence from Denmark.
Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen informed broadcaster TV2 on Tuesday: “We want very shut cooperation with the People.
“However, I want to encourage everybody to respect that the Greenlanders are a folks; it’s their nation, and solely Greenland can decide and outline its future,” she mentioned.
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