2023-07-16 18:54:10
By Slim Allagui
Posted 1 hour ago, Updated 1 hour ago
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Russia’s brutal war of aggression in Ukraine leaves traces in the rest of the world (…). We must prevent it from spreading in the Arctic, ”says Mette Frederiksen, Danish Prime Minister (here, June 29, in Brussels). JOHN THYS/AFP
Inuit leaders oppose Copenhagen militarizing their Arctic region to counter Russian aims.
Copenhagen
“Russia’s brutal war of aggression in Ukraine leaves traces in the rest of the world (…). We have to stop it from spreading in the Arctic.” On the strength of this objective, the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, came to Nuuk on June 6 to take part in the annual meeting of the Kingdom of Denmark with its two autonomous territories, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. “The Arctic has become a high priority” in Denmark’s historic rearmament plan, announced on May 30 by acting Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen. This plan, with a budget of 19.2 billion euros, runs over the next ten years.
This project, the most ambitious since the Second World War, in this country of 5.8 million inhabitants, must be negotiated in the coming months with the parties of Parliament and the Greenlandic government. It provokes differences between Copenhagen and the Inuit leaders, who aspire to preserve their region from the rise in…
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