Speaking ahead of the opening ceremony on Sunday afternoon, Obama said people should not “over-crank” a series of heated altercations between USA and Chinese officials in the 24 hours since he arrived in the communist country.
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Talks between Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov aimed at finding at least a limited agreement on Syria could take “several more days”, Obama said.
The talks culminated a several weeks of searching for a ceasefire between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and moderate rebels that would expand access for hundreds of thousands of civilians caught in the crossfire. -Russian militarily partnership against extremist groups operating in Syria.
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“Calm down please. Calm down”, a White House official said.
U.S. President Barack Obama’s last scheduled trip to Asia before leaving office however got off to an awkward start. Those plans deflated throughout the day, as both the briefing and the press conference were canceled.
Other leaders attending the summit in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou include Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Japan’s Shinzo Abe, Britain’s Theresa May, Germany’s Angela Merkel, France’s Francois Hollande and India’s Narendra Modi.
The US wants China to take on more responsibilities, not only for its own people but also for a wide range of global problems and conflicts, whether it is climate change or disaster relief or dealing with things like Ebola, Obama said. Later she said the Chinese had done things that “weren’t anticipated”.
The United States and Russia came up short today on an agreement to end more than five years of civil war between Syria’s Russian-backed government and us -supported rebels.
Russian President Putin is quoted as saying the Syrian conflict can only be resolved through political means. “The Assad regime in particular of course has Russian support”, he said. Amid the chaos, IS has emerged as a global terror threat. US reactions during the 12-hour coup effort, however, were more tepid, and that they only really condemned the effort once it was clear it was failing continues to loom large in US-Turkey relations. As the two nations declared that they would fully comply with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, it is likely that countries reluctant to ratify the pact would be subject to pressures in the form of export restrictions and non-tariff trade barriers.
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Officials from the both the countries are said to have exchanged angry words with one local official castigating a White House staffer.
