Obama says “we have deep commitments” to account for those lost during the war. One thing that they did manage to come to an agreement on is to keep up their negotiations regarding a ceasefire agreement.
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“Held at a critical time for world economic growth and the transformation of G20, the Hangzhou summit attracted wide attention from the whole world and carried high expectations”, Xi said at a press conference after the summit concluded.
“There are five different wars being waged” in Syria is a characterization expressed by more than one person involved in the cease-fire talks.
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, the official said.
“President Obama and President Putin discussed efforts to reach an agreement on Syria to reduce violence, provide humanitarian assistance and to focus on Al Qaeda”, the White House official said.
“We regret that the meeting of the two presidents (which took place on the G20 sidelines as well as prior to the summit) were framed with extra steps to expand sanctions”.
Meanwhile, ongoing talks between Washington and Moscow to resolve the Syrian crisis have faced several obstacles despite the summit held between U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and the long meeting between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov last week.
Reuters said that Mr Putin said on Monday that an agreement with the United States on finding a way to significantly reduce the death toll in Syria could be reached in the next few days.
An estimated 3 million Syrian refugees are living in Turkey.
However, Russia considers several of the groups the US backs to be “terrorist” organizations and, therefore, legitimate targets. Officials hope a ceasefire will help advance talks on a political transition that would lead to the resignation of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
In his concluding remarks, President Xi Jinping said summit participants reached “important consensus” on such G20 tasks as strengthening policy coordination, breaking a new path for growth, achieving more efficient and effective global economic and financial governance, boosting worldwide trade and investment and enhancing anti-graft efforts.
Peskov added that such decisions are not conducive to the development of relations between Russian Federation and the United States.
“The faster we can offer some relief to folks on ground”, he said, “the better off we’re going to be”.
On June 30, Russian Federation lifted a ban on tourist flights to Turkey following a phone conversation between Putin and Erdogan.
He noted that the Russian and USA leaders discussed Syrian and Ukrainian issues.
Eager to show he wouldn’t yield, Obama said he would “undoubtedly” still bring up human rights and due process concerns “if and when” the two do meet.
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“Our conversations with the Russians are key because, if it were not for the Russians, then Assad and the regime would not be able to sustain its offensive”, he said.
