New Delhi, March 24 -- Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede has strongly criticised an upcoming visit by Usha Vance, wife of US Vice President JD Vance, and other senior officials, calling it a "provocation" and "highly aggressive."

"The very aggressive American pressure against Greenlandic society is now so serious that the level cannot be raised any higher," Greenland's Prime Minister Mute B. Egede said in an interview with the Sermitsiaq newspaper on Sunday.

The delegation, which includes National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, is set to visit Greenland on Thursday (March 27).

Usha Vance will depart on Thursday and return on Saturday, accompanied by one of her three children as part of a US delegatio...