US President Barack Obama arrives at Hangzhou Xiaoshan worldwide airport before the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China September 3, 2016. But an ultimate agreement remained elusive.
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Obama went on to say countries will have enough threats to contend with from non-state actors without having to worry about state-backed hackers. That has led opposition forces, including those with ties to terrorism, to ramp up recruitment of new fighters, the president said.
Obama said it was not an anti-American gesture and that it was clear that the San Francisco 49ers player is honest and “cares about some real, legitimate issues”.
Obama said he has instructed his aides to determine whether it would still be productive to hold the face-to-face meeting with Duterte. “Given the gaps of trust that exist, that’s a tough negotiation”, he said.
“We actually see there’s a tremendous, positive engagement by Canada in secruity in Eastern Europe and our allies genuinely appreciate that”, he said when asked why he didn’t participate. The goal, he said, is to forge a durable cease-fire that would end the rain of bombs on Aleppo and other Syrian cities.
“We can say that our mutual work with the USA in fighting terrorist organizations, including in Syria, will be significantly improved and intensified”. We have more capacity than anybody both offensively and defensively.
“Our goal is not to suddenly in the cyber arena duplicate a cycle of escalation that we saw when it comes to other arms races in the past”, he said, “but rather to start instituting some norms so that everyone is acting responsibly”.
Earlier in the day, U.S. secretary of state John Kerry and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov tried and failed to come up with terms for a ceasefire for the second time in a fortnight, although they are due to meet again this week.
Mr Obama’s visit started on a high note, with the U.S. and China consummating their unlikely partnership on climate change by announcing they were both entering the global emissions-cutting deal reached previous year in Paris.
“We reiterate our commitment to sustainable development, strong and effective support and actions to address climate change”.
Moscow however always welcomes any contact with the USA, according to the Russian leader, who said that Washington is one of Russia’s key partners in a number of fields, including global security.
The official admitted, however, that there were still “significant differences” with the Russians.
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Theresa May hold a press conference on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hangzhou on September 4, 2016. “If we can not get the type of agreement we want, we will walk away from that effort”.
But Putin appeared to reporters in a press conference following the meeting to be more optimistic.
He said the G20 will strive to fulfill its role as a premier forum for global economic cooperation and continue to transform itself from a crisis-response mechanism to a long-term governance platform focusing on medium- and long-term policies and supply-side reforms.
He said the two sides had worked through many technical issues but said the US didn’t want to enter into an illegitimate agreement. IS’ media outlet, Amaq, said the attacks were suicide operations targeting the Syrian government and a Kurdish security force.
More than five years of civil war have cut Syria into a patchwork of territories held by the government and an often competing array of armed factions, including Kurdish militia fighters, a loose coalition of rebels groups, and Islamic State.
Syrian state television said the first explosion was a vehicle bomb and the second a suicide belt detonated as rescue workers arrived. At least 30 people were reported killed.
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West of Damascus, there was an explosion near the town of al Saboura, killing one person and injuring three, according to a police commander quoted by state media. So why was it only the United States that didn’t?
