French President Emmanuel Macron is due to land in Greenland Sunday, in a move designed to bolster European support for the Danish territory, which is still batting away advances from the Trump administration to acquire it for the United States. <\/p>\n
Macron will be the first foreign leader to visit the resource-rich island since US President Donald Trump began his campaign to buy or annex Greenland, which he insists the US needs for national security purposes. <\/p>\n
A source at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace said that the French president\u2019s trip had a \u201cdimension of European solidarity and one of strengthening sovereignty and territorial integrity,\u201d without mentioning the Trump administration\u2019s threats to purchase Greenland, or take it by force. <\/p>\n
Additionally, Macron\u2019s visit would focus on Arctic security, climate change and Greenland\u2019s economic development, the source added. <\/p>\n
During his time on the world\u2019s biggest island the French leader will tour a glacier, a hydroelectric power station and a Danish warship moored near the semiautonomous territory\u2019s capital, Nuuk, per the \u00c9lys\u00e9e. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe deeps are not for sale, any more than Greenland is for sale, any more than Antarctica or the high seas are for sale,\u201d Macron said on June 9 as he opened a United Nations conference on the oceans in Nice, France. <\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s intentions for Greenland can\u2019t be far from the French president\u2019s thoughts on his first visit to the Arctic territory, which Macron will conduct alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland\u2019s political leader, Jens-Frederik Nielsen. <\/p>\n
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said in January that Paris had \u201cstarted discussing (the deployment of French troops) with Denmark,\u201d but that Copenhagen did not want to proceed with the idea. <\/p>\n
Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in buying the island, or the US taking it by military or economic coercion, even as NATO ally Denmark and Greenland have firmly rejected the idea. Last month, the US president renewed his threat of using military force to annex the territory. <\/p>\n
US Vice President JD Vance also made a stopover to visit American troops in Greenland in late March. During that trip, the vice president made a high-profile case for US control of the island. He said Greenland would be better off \u201ccoming under the United States\u2019 security umbrella than you have been under Denmark\u2019s security umbrella.\u201d <\/p>\n
In a move widely seen as an effort to ease American ambitions for the territory, on June 12 Denmark\u2019s parliament widened a military agreement with Washington to allow US bases on Danish soil. US soldiers had previously been based at Danish facilities. <\/p>\n
Denmark is also moving to bolster its military presence in Greenland, some 1,500 miles from the Danish mainland, including with fighter jets to patrol the western coastline toward the US and a navy frigate, per Greenland\u2019s parliament. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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