Pompeo skips visit to Greenland amid new tensions with Iran

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Thu, 2019-05-09 04:17

LONDON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has canceled a visit to Greenland to return to Washington amid an escalation of tensions with Iran.
Pompeo had been due to wrap up a trip to Europe on Thursday with a stop in Greenland aimed at promoting the Trump administration’s Arctic policies. Those policies were criticized earlier this week for not containing the words “climate change” when Pompeo attended an Arctic Council meeting in Finland.
The State Department says that Pompeo will still order a restoration of a permanent US diplomatic presence in Greenland.