Trump- Putin first summit to be held in Helsinki on July 16

■ Meeting to take place four days after Nato summit to be held in Brussels

Washington/ Moscow, June 28: US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will hold their first summit meeting on July 16 in the Finnish capital Helsinki to mend bilateral relations, the White House and the Kremlin announced on Thursday.

The summit will take place four days after a Nato summit on July 11 and 12 in Brussels, Belgium, where Trump will meet leaders of US military allies.

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The two leaders “will meet on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said.

“The two leaders will discuss relations between the US and Russia and a range of national security issues,” Sanders said in a statement.

In Moscow, the Kremlin press service said Putin and Trump will discuss “the current state and prospects of further development of RussianUS relations and also vital issues of the international agenda.”

Putin and Trump held their first talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany’s Hamburg July 2017. in to visit British Theresa They had another opportunity to hold negotiations during the APEC summit in Vietnam in November 2017, but no full- fledged meeting took place. The announcement of the date and venue of the summit follows a meeting between President and US National Security Adviser John Bolton in Moscow on Wednesday. Putin’s adviser Yuri Ushakov had said the two leaders will meet in a third country. Putin ■