“I have noted that some United States media have been making an issue out of the small episode between the staff of the two sides when President Obama arrived at the Hangzhou airport, and they made flimsy connections based on speculation”, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Monday.
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Russian Federation has insisted that it can not agree to a deal unless opposition fighters, backed by the United States and Middle East allies, are separated from al-Qaeda linked militants they overlap with in some areas.
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.
Mr Obama has expressed scepticism that Russian Federation would hold to its agreement.
The US president, on his part, said easing the humanitarian situation in Syria would pave the way for a political solution, adding that a settlement of the crisis would include all parties directly or indirectly involved in the conflict.
Washington and Moscow have sought for weeks to secure a ceasefire between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government and terrorist groups operating in the country.
Obama said he and Putin instructed their deputies “to keep working at it over the next several days”. United States officials believe that Russian hackers are responsible for the recent Democratic National Committee breach, which some fear was meant to influence the upcoming presidential election.
“We will support the multi-lateral trade mechanism and oppose protectionism to release the global trade growth potential and reverse declines in global trade”. On Monday, it was reported that USA intelligence agencies are probing what they believe are Russian efforts to influence the vote.
The hard diplomacy on Syria set the tone for an uneven few days for Mr Obama on his last tour through Asia as president.
But the focus on climate quickly gave way to the failed Syria talks.
“We are in an effort to take this step”, he said, referring to an alliance of Western and regional armies claiming to fight the Daesh Takfiri group in Syria.
An honor guard looks out from a bus ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s arrival at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou on September 3, 2016.
“It came as a serious concern both to the White House and to Russian Federation”.
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Rows broke out on the runway as Chinese officials blocked journalists accompanying Mr Obama.
