Librarians have a few words of advice for US President Donald Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of their meeting in Finland later this month.
The Finnish Library Association has published a video urging the leaders to meet in a library instead of an exclusive hotel.
President Trump recently met the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the upmarket Capella Hotel on Singapore’s Sentosa Island.
According to the group, Finnish libraries are considered to be some of the best in the world and could help the two leaders learn about equality, history, grammar, and democracy.
They could also help explain why it’s a bad idea “to put kids in cages” or “poison your enemies”, a reference to the children of immigrants who have been detained in the United States, and the alleged poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in England.
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The US President has said that at the summit he plans to raise the issue of Russian meddling in the US election as well as Ukraine, Syria and Crimea.
"We'll be talking about elections. We don't want anybody tampering with elections," Trump said.
Asked if the US might recognise Crimea to be part of Russia, he said, "We're to have to see" and then said the situation was handled "unfortunately" by his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
Trump has previously suggested Russia should be allowed to return to the Group of Seven - formerly Eight - economic powers.
Putin was expelled from the international group in 2014 after Russia moved troops into eastern Ukraine and annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. Other G7 leaders - Britain, Canada, Italy, France, Germany and Japan - have all made clear Russia is not welcome back unless it gives Crimea back to Ukraine.
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