Anonymous ID: fa7fc9 July 15, 2018, 5:50 p.m. No.2168138   🗄️.is đź”—kun

President Trump and Vladimir Putin Will Meet at a Finnish Presidential Palace…

 

(HELSINKI) — Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet Monday at Finnish presidential palace in Helsinki that overlooks the Baltic Sea — the same venue where two of their predecessors met in 1990.

 

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto’s office said the American and Russian leaders will hold their summit at the 19th-century Presidential Palace, located a stone’s throw away from the capital’s iconic waterfront Market Square.

 

Putin and Trump have met twice before on the sidelines of international meetings but the Helsinki summit will be their first official stand-alone meeting.

 

U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev held talks at the same venue in 1990.

 

To kick off the day, Trump and his wife, Melania, will join Niinisto and his wife, Jenni Haukio, for breakfast at Mantyniemi, another presidential residence in Helsinki where the couple lives most of the time. Niinisto also will hold a bilateral meeting with Putin.

Anonymous ID: fa7fc9 July 15, 2018, 6:44 p.m. No.2168635   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8688

White House Announces Scheduled Time of Putin-Trump Helsinki Press Conference

 

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will start their face-to-face meeting during Monday's summit in Helsinki at 1:20 pm (10:20 GMT) local time and will continue talks for one and a half hours, according a schedule of events published by the White House.

 

The face-to-face meeting will end at 2:50 Helsinki time and the leaders will proceed to a working lunch. The two leaders' joint press conference will start at 16:50 local time.

 

The summit between Putin and Trump is expected to take place in the Finnish capital, having bilateral ties and various international issues the agenda. The summit will be the leaders' first full-fledged meeting since Trump took office in January 2017.