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World|politics|June 27, 2018 / 10:44 AM
Helsinki eyed for potential Trump-Putin meeting

AKIPRESS.COM - President of the US Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin may meet next month in Helsinki, Finland, a US official said on Tuesday.

The Scandinavian city has emerged as a strong possibility to host the summit, which Trump has pressed aides to organize after he raised the idea during a congratulatory phone call with Putin in March, CNN reported.

Trump is expected to meet Putin at the end of a July trip to Europe, where he'll attend a NATO summit in Brussels and make a long-delayed visit to the United Kingdom. Neither the White House nor the Kremlin has officially announced a meeting.

Trump's national security adviser John Bolton is traveling to Moscow this week to help arrange the meeting.

The Austrian capital Vienna had been previously mentioned as a venue for the summit, though the US official suggested that option had now been largely ruled out.

Trump and Putin last greeted each other in person on the sidelines of a leaders' summit in Vietnam in November. That followed a formal sit-down meeting in Hamburg during last year's G20 summit.

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