The North Atlantic mandates are due for government negotiations with Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday in Marienborg.
There is a wish from the Greenlandic side for more powers on foreign policy and to a greater extent to be able to speak for Greenland’s case in foreign policy without having representatives from Denmark involved.
This is what the newly elected member of the Greenlandic parliament Naaja Nathanielsen from the IA party says to DR.
– It matters whether we have to wear support wheels when we hold meetings with other countries, she tells the media and adds that it is about giving Greenland “the power we need to conduct our policy”.
According to the Basic Law and the Self-Government Act, it is the Danish government that handles foreign policy matters on behalf of the Commonwealth.
The desire for more powers on foreign policy will be presented before the North Atlantic members of parliament on Tuesday have to hold meetings with the royal investigator Mette Frederiksen, who is trying to form a government after last week’s general election.
Government negotiations began in earnest on Friday.
Here there were meetings, i.e. preliminary negotiations, in the Prime Minister’s Office, where seven parties visited Mette Frederiksen.
It was SF, Enhedslisten, the Radicals, the Alternative, the Moderates, the Left and the Conservatives.
Government negotiations continue on Tuesday and Wednesday at Marienborg, the Prime Minister’s official residence.
On Tuesday morning, Acting Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will also hold bilateral meetings with the North Atlantic mandates, which in addition to the two Greenlandic mandates include two Faroese mandates.
In addition, Enhedslisten informed TV 2 on Tuesday morning that the party will also meet with Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday.
According to the party, it will happen at 2 pm at Marienborg.
The Kingdom’s foreign policy has particularly concerned Greenland in connection with repeated threats from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to take over Greenland.
Former assistant secretary of state for foreign affairs Vivian Motzfeldt played a role here in the diplomatic process that has had to try to reconcile the differences with the United States.
In January, she was in Washington DC together with Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M).
Here they met with the US Vice President, JD Vance, and the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
Whether Naaja Nathanielsen in Tuesday’s interview with DR believes that such a meeting should, for example, have been held without Lars Løkke Rasmussen and thus a Danish representative, is not apparent from the article.
Qarsoq Høegh-Dam, N, has also been elected to the Danish Parliament.
He has previously expressed that he expects Greenland to be able to come up with one unified voice and one set of demands for the future Danish government, regardless of how it might look.
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