Previously foreign minister disagrees with Løkke: Not a de-escalation

Former foreign minister Per Stig Møller disagrees with current foreign minister Lars Løkke, who has called the altered American visit to Greenland a de-escalation.

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Marie Serup Skotte ([email protected]) 39 min. ago

The American vice president's visit to Greenland will take place on Friday, and it adds a new chapter to the story of a deep diplomatic crisis.

- It's almost catastrophic and getting worse and worse, it sounds from the former conservative foreign minister, Per Stig Møller, who looks at the American visit with concern.

Initially, the plan was for an American delegation consisting of the American vice president's wife, the national security advisor, and the energy minister to visit Nuuk and Sisimiut.

Unacceptable, it sounded from the incumbent government leader Múte B. Egede, who called for international reactions.

Now, the grand American visit has been dropped, and instead, the vice president's couple will only visit the American military base Pituffik Space Base.

According to Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M), this is a de-escalation from the American side, but this analysis is not shared by Per Stiig Møller.

- It was not a de-escalation, but a tactical retreat. It is a regrouping to attack in a new way, he explains.

Per Stig Møller instead believes that the changed American travel plans are because the Americans were afraid that the trip would create bad publicity.

- They could see that when Greenlanders stand with their backs to four limousines and the vice president's wife, it looks very bad on television. So therefore, they had no other choice but to regroup and find another method.

Watch the entire interview with Per Stig Møller in Deadline on DRTV (https://www.dr.dk/drtv/se/deadline_-et-uvelkomment-amerikansk-besoeg_513237 ).

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