Ukrainians caught with cargo of valuable bicycles Last spring’s elections are believed to have played an important role in this decision, as the victorious parties are sceptical of the mining project.
The politicians contended that any construction site would present risks of disturbance of the earth’s layers and a dissemination of toxic materials – mainly uranium and thorium. The move came in the wake of the news that the Danish frigate Esbern Snare had been deployed in the Gulf of Guinea to combat piracy until April 2022, and it coincided with the ship’s crew killing four people during a firefight.Ī majority of the Inatsisartut, the Greenlandic parliament, voted against plans for Australian company Greenland Minerals to mine a mountain in Kvanefjeld. We need to prepare for Denmark’s application to the UN Security Council and realise our global climate ambitions”.įrom November 24-25, PM Mette Frederiksen visited Ghana with Venstre head Jakob Ellemann-Jensen to meet the Ghanaian leaders and to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. During his visit to ASEAN’s Jakarta headquarters, the foreign minister, Jeppe Kofod, explained: “Maritime transport in the region must be secure so that our export companies have clear trade routes in Asia. This enhanced collaboration ensures that Danish interests in trade security policies in the region will flourish.
The 31-year-old is currently jailed with her two children.ĭenmark has moved to upgrade its relations with the ASEAN peace and co-operation treaty and organisation that encompasses 650 million people in Southeast Asia.
Her lawyer Knud Foldschack told DR reporters: “This is the first time that a court has to decide whether a decision of such scope and with such serious consequences can be made at a desk without prior verification of the case and facts.” In 2014, the woman travelled to the IS caliphate with her husband, who was later killed in a US drone strike. One of the Islamic State (IS) women in the al-Roj prison camp in Syria is suing the Immigration Ministry in connection to the respective minister, Mattias Tesfaye, having her Danish passport revoked and her citizenship stripped in 2019. Landmark IS citizenship decision on the way Denmark does not respect the Dublin Regulation, which aims to ensure that the first country approached by migrants should be solely responsible for processing their application. Niels-Erik Hansen, an immigration lawyer who represented three of the Syrians before the Refugee Board, believes that Denmark “exports its asylum problems”. In recent months, 28 Syrians and their families denied asylum in Denmark have ended up in other European countries, such as the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Sweden and France. Among other things, they committed to finalising and reaching an agreement on a ‘Green China-Denmark Joint Work Program’ in 2022, with a particular emphasis on addressing climate change and promoting co-operation in areas such as the green transition, the environment, water, agriculture, food safety, health and maritime affairs. The foreign minister, Jeppe Kofod, visited Hangzhou on November 26 to meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to discuss Danish-Chinese relations and exchange views on foreign policy, human rights, and global issues such as climate change. Some 13 arrived in Copenhagen on November 24 and the remainder were expected to arrive later in the week.
In related news, Denmark has succeeded in helping 21 individuals out of Afghanistan and into Pakistan in late November.
Some 50 applicants were refused, and another 57 apparently “received some financial support to resettle inside Afghanistan”. READ ALSO: Denmark paying UK to take its Afghan interpretersĪ total of 1,077 people from Afghanistan, including 236 interpreters and their family members who were evacuated to Denmark after the fall of Kabul in August, are still being processed for asylum.Īccording to an internal Defence Agency memo from June 2021, only 9 out of 116 Afghan interpreters have been granted asylum. This is totally incompatible with our traditions of humanitarian aid,” lawyer Poul Hauch Fenger, and asylum expert and a former member of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told Berlingske. “I have never encountered a situation where people are paid for humanitarian reasons.