PARIS: France’s president will meet the leaders of Denmark and Greenland in Paris on Wednesday for “a working lunch,” his office said Tuesday.
Emmanuel Macron will “reaffirm European solidarity and France’s support for Denmark, Greenland, their sovereignty and their territorial integrity,” the presidency said.
The meeting comes days after US President Donald Trump backed down from threats to seize Greenland, a mineral-rich Arctic island that is an autonomous Danish territory.
The three leaders will discuss “security issues in the Arctic and the economic and social development of Greenland, which France and the European Union are ready to support,” Macron’s office said.
Faced with Russian threats and US ambitions for Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland leader Jens-Frederik Nielsen have been making rounds with European allies this week including talks in Hamburg and Berlin ahead of visiting Paris Wednesday.
