Vice President on Friday.
The trip has been scaled back following an , who perceived an original itinerary as being planned without any consultation.
The revised trip to the largely autonomous Danish territory comes as .
President has repeatedly said the United States needs to control the mineral-rich territory of Denmark — a traditional US ally and NATO member.
Where in Greeland will Vance go?
Friday’s one-day visit will see travel to the US Space Force outpost at Pituffik, on the northwest coast of .
Initially, . Her husband then said he would join her on that trip.
However, the joint itinerary was changed after protests from officials in Greenland and Denmark to only visiting the military base to remove the risk of potentially violating diplomatic custom by sending a delegation to another country without an official invitation.
It has also reduced the likelihood that Vance and his wife will cross paths with residents angered by Trump’s suggestions that the US would annex Greenland to get control of the island.
How did Greenland react to news of Vance’s visit?
Opponents of Trump’s plans to control Greenland announced a rally in front of the US Embassy in the Danish capital for Saturday, Danish public broadcaster DR reported on Thursday.
Ahead of the visit, four of the five parties elected to Greenland’s parliament earlier this month agreed to form a new, broad-based coalition government, banding together in the face of Trump’s designs on the territory.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was cited by DR on Thursday as saying: “We really want to work with the Americans on defense and security in the kingdom. But Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.”
Nonetheless, Trump, most recently in an interview on Wednesday, repeated his desire for US control of Greenland. He said he didn’t know if the residents wanted to become US citizens “but I think we have to do it, and we have to convince them.”
During his first term, Trump floated the idea of purchasing the world’s largest island, even as Denmark insisted it wasn’t for sale.
Edited by: Sean Sinico
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