FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron landed in Greenland today en route to a tense G7 summit in Canada.

The stopover, which the Elysee Palace said was a sign of its support for “principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders enshrined in the UN Charter,” was an unsubtle reproach to US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to annex the huge Arctic island, an autonomous territory of EU member state Denmark.

The G7 group of rich countries will meet in Kananaskis in Alberta in Canada — a country Mr Trump has also talked about annexing.

It follows Mr Macron’s address to the UN Ocean Conference last week, in which he said that the “deep seas are not for sale, nor is Greenland up for grabs, nor are the Arctic or high seas for sale.” The remarks could lead to tension with Mr Trump, though he has expressed admiration for Mr Macron in the past, and Saturday’s military parade through Washington DC for his birthday is said to be inspired by a Bastille Day parade he attended with Mr Macron in France during his first term.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was due to meet Canada’s Mark Carney ahead of the summit, which was originally set to be dominated by efforts to talk Mr Trump out of tariffs he has imposed on many G7 members but may be derailed by the widening war in the Middle East. Mr Carney has indicated that disagreements between the Western powers are so great that there will be no joint communique at the end.