The Syrian crisis was top of the agenda at the two leaders’ meeting in China, Putin said, adding that he felt real interest and concern from the American president in finding solutions in Syria.
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“We are determined to break a new path for growth to inject new dynamism into the world economy”, Xi said, adding that a G20 Blueprint on Innovative Growth was unanimously adopted at the summit.
“We will support multilateral trade mechanisms and oppose protectionism to reverse declines in global trade”.
North Korea fired off three ballistic missiles as the summit concluded, underscoring its willingness to take aggressive steps and assert itself in the region.
Mrs May said she had asked the Russian leader to do all he could to end the bombing of civilians in Syria.
Both countries are interested in fighting terrorism, Putin said, adding that “the U.S. president is absolutely honest in striving for a resolution of the Syrian conflict”.
On other fronts, the United States tried but failed to finalise a deal with Russian Federation for a ceasefire in Syria on the sidelines of the summit.
The balance sheet from the latest G20 meeting, President Barack Obama’s last, appears to be a thin one.
A senior State Department official said a fresh round of talks between Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the margins of the G20 summit in Hangzhou had ended without agreement.
The EU decision against Apple comes amidst a coordinated global initiative to crack down on tax evasion by multinational companies, spearheaded by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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.
In addition, Mikheyev noted that “we should not forget about the upcoming presidential elections in the United States, which don’t allow to confidently predict how will the relations between Moscow and Washington develop in the medium and long term”. Many leaders are already looking ahead to January, when either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump assumes the business of state.
“Obviously it has something to do with the refugee question”.
He said that the work between the two superpowers will continue.
“You saw that all the other country leaders all used the stairs that China provided”. He made the remarks at a press conference at the early September G20 economic summit meeting in Hangzhou, China.
“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”.
“On the global growth front, I would say it is hard for the G-20 to come up with a co-ordinated action plan because numerous countries are caught up in domestic issues”, Biswas said.
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“What we can not do is have a situation in which this becomes the wild, wild West in which countries that have significant cyber capacity start engaging in competition, unhealthy competition”, Obama said.
