The U.S. delegation’s toned-down Arctic itinerary has been met with cautious relief from Denmark and Greenland.
The officials’ decision to only visit a U.S. military base instead of the initially planned broader trip — which was loudly decried as aggressive, considering Washington’s designs on the self-ruling Danish territory — is “wise,” Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said.
“I think it’s a much wiser decision to visit the military installation than to interfere in what is happening in Greenlandic politics — in a situation where no government has been formed,” Lund Poulsen said Wednesday.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen called the change “a positive development” and a sign that the Americans “have understood the resistance to the U.S. overtures in Greenland.”
