Putin and Trump to meet at Presidential Palace in Helsinki, says paper

Russian Politics & Diplomacy July 05, 2018, 21:07

HELSINKI, July 5. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will meet at the Presidential Palace in central Helsinki, the Helsingin Sanomat said on Thursday referring to the White House.

"The meeting is due at the Presidential Palace on July 16," it said. The palace, covering an area of about 3,000 square meters, hosted a summit meeting of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H.W. Bush back in September 1990.

The press center for reporters accredited for the forthcoming summit meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Helsinki will be located in the downtown Finlandia Hall palace of congresses, the Finnish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday as it announced the opening of accreditations for the summit.

The press center will be open for reporters as of 09:00 hours local time on July 15. Up to 2,000 reporters may come to Helsinki to cover the summit.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier Putin and Trump would most likely discuss a range of highly complicated issues, including Syria. So far, neither the Kremlin nor the White House has given the concrete venue of the summit.

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