U.S. President Donald Trump and Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb will meet on Thursday at the White House tosign a pact for the U.S. Coast Guard to buy up to four icebreaker ships
U.S. President Donald Trump and Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb will meet on Thursday at the White House tosign a pact for the U.S. Coast Guard to buy up to four icebreaker ships from Finnish shipyards, the White House and Stubb said.
Trump and Stubb have established friendly ties since Trump regained power in January, and the two met in March at the president's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and played a round of golf.
"I will sign a Memorandum of Understanding on icebreaker cooperation together with (U.S. President Donald Trump)," Stubb wrote in a post, adding the agreement would lay the foundation for commercial agreements between the U.S. Coast Guard and Finnish companies.
Trump has consistently called for the United States to acquire as many as 40 new icebreakers to enhance U.S. national security in the Arctic and counter the growing influence of China and Russia.
A White House official earlier said Trump would sign a memorandum of understanding with Finland to build four "Arctic security cutters" at shipyards in Finland, calling the plan a national security necessity to permit foreign construction.
"We will then leverage Finnish expertise to construct up to seven new ASCs in shipyards located in the United
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