HELSINKI, July 14 -- The usually busy market at the south harbor of Helsinki will be closed on Monday as the nearby presidential palace will be the scene for the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday afternoon.
This is the second time the Finnish presidential palace serves as a location for a U.S.-Russia summit. In 1990, George Bush and Mihail Gorbachov met there.
The public transportation system will experience reroutings and delays. The ferry service from the water front to the fortress island Suomenlinna will be moved to another harbour. A major traffic restriction is expected on Sunday evening as Trump and his delegation arrive.
The arrangement is considered a routine in Finland, as Helsinki has served as the location for three U.S.-Russia summits and numerous other high level political encounters since 1975. When the last summit between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin was held in Helsinki in 1997, new solutions were developed to meet the special requirements for the telecommunication system, security experts told Finnish media outlets.
The details of the upcoming summit were kept under almost full secrecy until Friday. Finnish capability to prevent leaks was mentioned earlier as one of the reasons why Helsinki was chosen as the location.
Some 1,500 international journalists from 60 countries have arrived in Helsinki and collected their media badges to cover the summit. Finnish national broadcaster Yle said the largest national cohort are 300 journalists from Russia.
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