World Media to Focus on Russia-US Summit in SloveniaAbout 3,000 reporters from world mass media will gather in Slovenian capital Ljubljana to cover the first summit of incumbent Russian and American presidents due at the end of this week, Russia's official Itar-Tass news agency said Tuesday.Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart George W. Bush will meet in a palace built in the 15th century and surrounded by a beautiful park and a lake, 20 kilometers away from Ljubljana, where thousands of journalists from news agencies, television and radio companies, and leading newspapers are heading for to watch closely this event of world attention, Tass said. Both Russia and the United States chose the palace for the site of their negotiations. The advance groups of the representatives from the two countries have visited Slovenia, and details of the summit are being specified. The presidents will meet in Ljubljana after their foreign trips. Putin will come there after a two-day visit to Shanghai, while Bush will arrive in Slovenia after a European tour. The wives of the two presidents will also come to Ljubljana. The summit duration has not been set. Putin and Bush are expected to have bilateral negotiations and separate meetings with the administration of Slovenia. Everything is ready in Slovenia to meet a possible wish of the presidents to stay longer, Tass said. Slovenian diplomats were quoted as saying that the decision of Russia and the United States to hold the summit in Ljubljana is "a great honor" for Slovenia. |
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