Mr Gorbachev first called for a Helsinki 2 summit next year in Rome last week.

At the Helsinki summit in December 1999 Turkey was given the status of a candidate country.

Also in Newsweek , a column on the Helsinki summit concludes that it was successful but barely newsworthy, since Russia is so weak.

But at the Helsinki summit, the European Union finally agreed to accept Turkey as a candidate for EU membership.

The Helsinki summit, arranged at very short notice, dealt almost exclusively with the specific issue of a major regional conflict.

Now, it would seem that the European security and defence identity is making dramatic progress in the wake of the Helsinki summit.

This initiative does not apply to Turkey, which has been a candidate country since the Helsinki summit in 1999.

What suggestions are we putting forward for the Helsinki summit?

So I can only advise against postponing the strategy until the Helsinki summit, particularly in the current situation.

Josh, back from the Helsinki summit, gives Donna a box of cured moose meat.