WASHINGTON - THE US President and President Yeltsin of Russia will delay a Helsinki summit by one day this week to give Mr Clinton more time to recuperate from emergency surgery for a torn knee tendon, the White House said yesterday.
The postponement was worked out by their aides "over last night and this morning" to give the US President "another day to get ready" for his talks with Mr Yeltsin on NATO expansion and other issues, the spokesman, Mr David Johnson, said.
Mr Clinton, who was discharged from Bethesda National Navy Medical Centre yesterday, will arrive in the Finnish capital on Thursday for two days of talks with the Russian leader. A visit by Mr Clinton to Denmark after the summit will be rescheduled for July.