The United States ambassador to Denmark barred an American NATO expert critical of President Donald Trump from speaking at an international conference hosted by the U.S. Embassy and a Danish think tank, prompting the event’s cancellation, organizers said.
The expert, Stanley R. Sloan, was scheduled to give a keynote speech at the conference, which was celebrating the 70th anniversary of NATO, on Tuesday.
Sloan, a visiting scholar at Middlebury College in Vermont, a fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former analyst for the CIA, planned to speak about the future of trans-Atlantic relations.
One day before he was set to leave for Copenhagen, Sloan was informed that the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen had vetoed his participation because of his previous criticisms of Trump, Sloan said on Facebook on Saturday.
Carla Sands, the U.S. ambassador to Denmark, did not want Sloan to participate, and the Danish Atlantic Council “had no other option” than to revoke his invitation to speak, Lars Bangert Struwe, the secretary-general of the council, said in a statement.
Sloan said the decision had left him “stunned and concerned about our country.”
On Sunday morning, Struwe canceled the NATO conference.
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