[(Title)]Presidents of US, Finland discuss upcoming Putin-Trump meeting

HELSUNKI, July 12.

/TASS/.

Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto has discussed the upcoming Russian-US summit in Helsinki with his US counterpart Donald Trump, the Finnish Ilta-Sanomat newspaper reported on Thursday.

芬兰总统绍利·尼尼斯托与美国总统唐纳德·特朗普讨论了即将在赫尔辛基举行的俄美峰会。

According to the newspaper, a brief conversation between Niinisto and Trump took place during a working dinner in Brussels where the Finnish president had arrived for the NATO summit.

据该报报道，尼尼斯托和特朗普在布鲁塞尔举行了一次工作晚宴，当时芬兰总统参加了北约峰会。

Ilta-Sanomat said that Niinisto had declined to comment on his conversation with the US president.

伊尔塔-萨诺马特说，尼尼斯托拒绝就他与美国总统的谈话发表评论。

However, he said that he was more optimistic than before about the upcoming Helsinki summit.

然而，他说关于即将举行的赫尔辛基首脑会议，他比以前更乐观。

"The reason is that more than twenty speeches were delivered at the dinner with no statements made against the importance of transatlantic cooperation - nothing that could ruin NATO," the newspaper quoted Niinisto as saying.

该报援引尼尼斯托的话说：“理由是在晚宴上发表了二十多篇演说，没有发表任何反对跨大西洋合作重要性的声明，这些言论不会破坏北约组织。”

"As for the Helsinki meeting, everyone who mentioned it pointed out that it was a good and necessary thing.

“关于赫尔辛基会议,所有提到会议的人都指出这是一件好事,是必要的事。另一方面，许多人对如何进行这一想法有看法，但这是另一个问题，”芬兰总统补充道。

On the other hand, many had thoughts about ways to conduct it.

But that is another matter," the Finnish president added.

The Kremlin press service said earlier that Putin and Trump would hold a meeting in Helsinki on July 16.

克里姆林宫新闻机构早些时候说，普京和特朗普将于7月16日在赫尔辛基举行一次会议。

According to Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the two leaders are expected to discuss a number of difficult issues, including the Syrian conflict.

据俄罗斯总统发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫称，预计两位领导人将讨论一些棘手问题，包括叙利亚冲突。