Greenland's PM accuses US of 'interference' over plan to send delegation

Greenland's prime minister, Múte B Egede, accused Washington of "foreign interference" yesterday and called for the international community to speak out over an announcement that Donald Trump's national security adviser and the US second lady will visit the island.

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Mike Waltz and Usha Vance are due to arrive in Greenland this week as part of a delegation that will also include the US energy secretary, Chris Wright. A spokesperson for the Danish police yesterday confirmed they had sent extra personnel and sniffer dogs to Greenland as they step up security measures before the visit.

Local media also reported the arrival of four bulletproof cars in Nuuk city centre delivered by plane from the US for the visit.

Trump - who yesterday told reporters after a cabinet meeting, "I think Greenland is going to be something that maybe is in our future" - has pledged to make the autonomous territory part of the US, "one way or the other", and has refused to rule out using military or economic force to do so.

Greenland is part of the kingdom of Denmark, which ruled Greenland as a colony until 1953 and continues to control its foreign and security policy.