NUUK, Greenland (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s first trip to Greenland, the strategic Arctic island coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump, is aimed at shoring up Europe’s political backing for Denmark and its semiautonomous territory.
Macron’s visit on Sunday comes just ahead a meeting of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations next week in Canada that will be attended by both Macron and Trump.
Macron’s plane landed in Nuuk around 11:15 a.m. (1215 GMT) Sunday, Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq reported.
The French president’s office said the trip to Greenland is a reminder that Paris supports principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders as enshrined in the U.N. charter.
Macron is also to meet with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen
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