WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
With Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meeting in Helsinki for their first official dialogue, HT takes a look at some previous summits held by the leaders of Washington and Moscow
1961 VIENNA John Kennedy (right) Nikita Khrushchev
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The two met to discuss a number of issues, with a divided Berlin at the top of the agenda. However, the talks were a disaster, and construction of the Berlin Wall began two months later
1972 MOSCOW Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev
The two leaders had a successful summit, resulting in the US and the Soviet Union signing the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), and the US–Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement
1974 VLADIVOSTOK Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev
The two leaders signed a joint communiqué on the limitation of strategic offensive arms. This meet also paved the way for the Helsinki accords, which called for respect for human rights and for the inviolability of European borders. A member of Ford's policy team later stated Brezhnev secretly told the US leader that the Soviets supported his re-election and would "do everything” to make that happen
1987 WASHINGTON Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
The two leaders signed the INF Treaty, which banned intermediaterange nuclear missiles, leading to the destruction of 2,692 missiles by 1991
1997 HELSINKI Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin
With Moscow uneasy with the eastward expansion of Nato, the two leaders met, with Russia agreeing to negotiate a pact with the alliance. The two sides also agreed to a sharp reduction in their nuclear arsenals
2001 L JUBLJANA George W Bush and Vladimir Putin
The two presidents met in Slovenia's capital, with Bush infamously remarking that he was able to look Putin in the eye and had "found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy... I was able to get a sense of his soul"