Naalakkersuisoq for foreign affairs must present a Foreign Policy Statement for Inatsisartut on Wednesday.
– Since the US presidential election in November 2024, Greenland’s relationship with the USA has changed significantly and has become extremely challenging.
This is what it says in the Foreign Policy Statement, which Naalakkersuisut is scheduled to present to Inatsisartut on Wednesday.
Taking the subject into consideration, the development in the relationship with the United States naturally characterizes the statement and not least the presentation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Múte B. Egedes (IA), which has been published ahead of today’s meeting.
– The US president’s statements about Greenland have created an extraordinary focus on our country and on the relationship with our historically close allies, writes naalakkersuisoq in his presentation of the report and continues:
– We were prepared that interest in our country could be shown again after the president’s statements in his first term. However, we were not prepared for the interest to be expressed as it did.
“Ownership and control over Greenland”
The statement covers Greenland’s foreign policy activities in both 2024 and 2025.
In the statement, the course of the massive American pressure is rolled up. It took off on December 23, 2024, when Donald Trump announced the future US ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark:
– In this connection, the incoming president wrote on his social media Truth Social that “the USA believes that ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity”. At a press conference on 7 January 2025, the incoming president mentioned that he could not refuse to use military force or economic sanctions to take control of Greenland, it is described in the report.
The statement also describes several initiatives in the US Congress, which have been about the US either buying or otherwise acquiring Greenland.
In December 2025, it also broke loose again, with Trump’s appointment of Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland, and Landry’s simultaneous proclamation that he would help make Greenland part of the United States.
Hundreds of meetings
It appears from the statement that Greenland’s representation in Washington in 2024 and 2025, together with the Danish embassy, has led an intensive diplomatic effort towards decision-makers in both Congress and the Senate as well as in central think tanks and political environments in Washington DC:
– In this connection, the representation has held hundreds of meetings, including with a significant number of members of Congress, with a view to explaining Greenland’s and the Kingdom’s positions and passing on factual information about Greenland, the report states.
The purpose of the effort has been to ensure that as many American decision-makers as possible have a nuanced and factually correct basis on Greenlandic conditions.
– Process of existential importance
Múte B. Egede mentions in his presentation that the high work pressure is expected to continue to increase, and that this will require more resources for the foreign sector to secure Greenland’s interests.
As the report looks back to 2024 and 2025, the current negotiations with the USA are not mentioned, but Múte B. Egede does in his presentation, and he assesses that the process is of “existential importance for Greenlandic society:”
– My predecessor in Naalakkersuisut together with the Danish foreign minister met with the US vice president and the US secretary of state in January 2026.
– One result of the ministerial meeting is a working group at senior official level, which works at high pressure to find solutions between our countries. This process is of existential importance for Greenlandic society and must therefore be respected with the necessary working calm, says Múte B. Egede’s presentation.
