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Trump arrives in Helsinki for summit meeting with Putin

The summit will begin at 13:00 Moscow time on Monday

HELSINKI, July 15. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump has arrived in the Finnish capital city of Helsinki, where he will hold the first full-format summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 16, a TASS correspondent reported from Helsinki’s Vantaa Airport on Sunday evening.

From the airport, Trump and his wife Melania headed for Hilton Kalastajantorppa, a hotel on the coast of the Gulf of Finland.

Trump arrived in Finland after a working visit to the United Kingdom and spending some time at his golf resort in Scotland.

The Russian-US summit will begin at 13:00 Moscow time on Monday. It will take place at the Presidential Palace in downtown Helsinki. The two leaders are expected to give a joint news conference after the meeting.

Putin and Trump held their first talks on the sidelines of the Group of Twenty summit in Germany’s Hamburg in July 2017. They had another opportunity to exchange views during the APEC summit in Vietnam in November 2017, but no full-fledged meeting took place. However, Putin and Trump talked on the sidelines of the forum and adopted a joint statement on Syria.

Since Trump assumed presidency, the two leaders have held several phone conversations, including the latest one on March 20.