The press in France underlines the symbolic character of the trip and Macron’s recent words on the huge island, coveted for its natural resources and its strategic value, with about 80 percent of its surface covered by ice, second only to Antarctica.

“The oceanic abysses are not for sale, nor is Greenland,” the head of the Elysée said last week in Nice, during the Third United Nations Conference on the Oceans.

In other statements on the subject, the French dignitary said he was opposed to predation.

Trump has repeatedly expressed the objective of taking over Greenland, even without ruling out the use of military force to achieve it, purposes that generate worldwide rejection.

Macron will be the first head of state to visit the island since the White House announced its intentions.

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