President Barack Obama said Monday the US and Russian Federation have not given up on negotiations that could stem the bloodshed in Syria, but acknowledged leaders are challenged by “gaps of trust” between the rival powers.
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“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”.
On Monday, North Korea added to the drama by firing three ballistic missiles off its east coast.
Erdogan had proposed the no-fly zone idea during the previous G20 summit, which was held in the Turkish city of Antalya past year. The U.S. says the tests and other recent ones like it violate U.N. Security Council resolutions, and also pose a threat to aircraft and commercial ships in the region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeated his previous call for establishing a no-fly zone in Syria, saying it would be needed to stop the flow of Syrian refugees into Turkey and other places.
Erdogan said he reiterated his plan for a “safe zone” in the 90-kilometer (56-mile) area during talks with US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit in China. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also met on the event’s sidelines and discussed Syria, but were unable to reach an agreement.
“If they are taking steps aimed at deteriorating our relations and we can not evade them, there are decisions, including those of a sanctions’ character”, Putin told journalists following the G20 summit.
Baroness Burt, Liberal Democrat spokeswoman on business, said: “It is disgraceful that Theresa May failed to raise the issue of steel exports with the Chinese”.
China itself stands accused of a litany of trade violations by the United States and European Union, and restricting access to its own giant market.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who supports protectionist trade policies, has pulled into an effective tie with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, erasing a substantial deficit. “We commit to complete our respective domestic procedures in order to join the Paris Agreement as soon as our national procedures allow”, said the joint communique issued at the end of the G20 summit.
This action formally joins the USA and China to the Paris Agreement, the worldwide effort to address the global treat of climate change.
Group of 20 leaders pledged to use all available tools to help prop up global growth that’s weaker than it should be while avoiding competitive currency devaluations.
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“That should be the way forward for the G20 – to make sure the benefits of trends like globalisation and technological progress are shared broadly by more workers and families who feel the global economy isn’t working for them”. Kerry said that the US wanted a deal with the best chance for survival. He is scheduled to attend the G20 summit in China tomorrow. “This is our airport!” when his White House counterpart reportedly insisted on the USA setting the parameters for Obama’s plane exit.
