Foreign ministers Russia and the US also meet

moscow - The American and Russian foreign ministers, Mike Pompeo and Sergey Lavrov, will also be meeting in Helsinki next week. Their chiefs, presidents Trump and Putin, have their first official summit on Monday in the Finnish capital. Russian media reported on the authority of spokesmen from Lavrov's ministry that the foreign ministers also met in Helsinki.

Helsinki is not the place of an American-Russian summit for the first time. In March 1997, Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin negotiated military and security issues. In September 1990, President Bush and President Gorbachev met in Helsinki to discuss more cooperation. In early August 1975 the Helsinki Accords were signed in the presence of President Ford and the Soviet Russian leader Brezhnev, an agreement to exonerate the then Cold War.