A closed bilateral meeting between US President George W. Bush (on the right) and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (second right) in Helsinki on September 9, 1990. During the summit, the main topics of discussion between the leaders of the two countries were: the resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, and the coordination of efforts to ease US-Soviet tensions after the end of the Cold War.
