Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has arrived in Denmark’s autonomous territory Greenland for a ceremony Wednesday to apologise in person to the victims of a forced contraception programme that Copenhagen ran for more than three decades.

After landing, Frederiksen said in a post to social media that the apology constituted an “important marking” of a “dark chapter in our shared history”.

“It will be a very important moment for these women, obviously, but also for society as a whole,” Aaja Chemnitz, an MP who represents Greenland in the Danish parliament, told AFP.

“It’s a second step in the reconciliation process after first announcing the apology” in late August, she said.

A special ceremony in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, was to begin at 2:00 pm (1500 GMT).

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