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.
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At the press conference, Juncker reportedly said it was critical for China to accept a method to monitor steel overcapacity and its causes, which had been discussed at earlier meetings in July 2016.
At the G20 summit, Xi Jinping, the Chinese President asked leaders to help in the development of guidelines on #global economical growth and investment.
American Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov met on Sunday and Monday on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
The White House has said it could still win congressional approval of the trade pact before Obama leaves office, and warned that failing to do so would undermine USA leadership in the region and allow China to increasingly set the terms of world trade.
Mr Obama and Mr Putin also discussed the conflict in Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting the government, and the implementation of the agreement to stop the violence.
China produces half the world’s annual output of 1.6 billion tonnes of steel and has struggled to decrease its estimated 300 million tonne overcapacity, and rising prices have given companies there an incentive to boost production for export. “But I nevertheless believe the decisions made were right and we have to continue to work on them”.
Mr Obama’s meeting with Mr Putin came as the Russian Federation leader is at the centre of controversy surrounding the United States presidential election.
The foreign ministry spokesperson urged “some individual media” to “focus their attention on where it should be, like the positive outcomes of China-US leaders’ meeting and the ongoing G20 summit”.
President Barack Obama is leaving the G-20 economic summit with no peace deal in Syria and under the cloud of North Korea’s latest missile test.
“We understood what was going on and where things would lead”.
The hard diplomacy on Syria set the tone for an uneven few days for Obama on his last tour through Asia as president.
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The meeting was frequently overshadowed by other concerns and got off to a rocky start Saturday when there was no staircase at the airport for Obama to exit his plane. It’s been a smooth transition from China’s Hangzhou to Hamburg. However, U.S. and European officials say the vast Chinese state-owned industry, which accounts for half of worldwide output, is the root of the problem.
