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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Denmark welcomes US plan to scale back unsolicited Greenland visit

JD Vance speaking
JD Vance, who was due to join his wife, Usha, on the trip, said the Trump administration wanted to ‘reinvigorate the security of the people of Greenland’. Photograph: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images

Denmark has welcomed the Trump administration’s decision to scale back an unsolicited visit to Greenland as a sign the US is “de-escalating” after the planned trip sparked a diplomatic row with the Arctic island and Denmark.

The trip was originally to have involved a delegation led by the US second lady, Usha Vance, and including the White House national security adviser, Mike Waltz, visiting the Greenlandic capital, Nuuk, and a dog sled race.

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