By Slim Allagui
Posted 2 hours ago, updated 2 hours ago
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Russia’s brutal war of aggression in Ukraine is leaving its mark on 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 its Arctic region to counter Russian aims.
Copenhagen
“Russia’s brutal war of aggression in Ukraine is leaving its mark on the rest of the world (…). We must prevent the spread in the Arctic.” With this aim, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen came to Nuuk on June 6 to attend the annual meeting of the Kingdom of Denmark with its two autonomous regions Greenland and Faroe Islands. “The Arctic is 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, the most ambitious project since World War II in the country of 5.8 million people, has to be negotiated with the parties in Parliament and the Greenlandic government in the coming months. It provokes differences between Copenhagen and the Inuit leaders who want to save their region from the rise of the…
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