Plaskett Meets With Danish Ambassador Ahead Of 2017 Centennial
- Staff
- January 14, 2016
ST. CROIX -- With one year left before the territory marks the 100-year anniversary of the transfer of Danish to American rule, Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett and the Ambassabor of Denmark are working toward bringing the centennial activities to the world stage, a press release Mrs. Plaskett office issued late Thursday has revealed. Mrs. Plaskett and Ambassador Lars Lose discussed the current state of affairs in the territory, as well as the upcoming centennial anniversary of the 1917 transfer of the Virgin Islands from Denmark to the United States. “Our meeting with Ambassador Lose, today, is important on a number of levels. We discussed the potential implications a newly formed Congressional caucus can have on the Centennial, as well as other ways to work together in bringing the history of the Danish West Indies and the issues surrounding the 1917 transfer to the forefront of the national discussion on equal treatment of the insular territories,” the freshman congresswoman said. Mrs....
