Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin both claimed to have had firm and productive talks about ending the civil war in Syria and focussing their military assets against Isis.
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HANGZHOU, China North Korea fired three ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday in a defiant reminder of the risks to global security, as world leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama gathered at a G20 summit in China for the second day.
“I think he absolutely sincerely aims to reach results in fighting terrorism and resolving the Syrian conflict”, Putin said.
“We’re doing a bunch of stuff at home and we want to coordinate internationally”, Obama told reporters at a briefing at the close of the summit.
Moscow has sometimes questioned whether USA -backed rebels really are moderate. “Given the gaps of trust that exist, that’s a tough negotiation”, he said. “We haven’t yet closed the gaps”.
The G20 countries, which represent 85 percent of the global economic output and two thirds of the world’s population, also committed to facilitating the early entry into force of the global climate agreement reached in Paris past year.
A cessation of hostilities agreement brokered by Lavrov and Kerry in February unraveled within weeks, with Washington accusing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of violating the pact.
Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart had attempted a similar negotiation earlier, but that effort failed as well.
In another article published on the newspaper, Mohamed Fayez Farahat, head of Asian Studies unit at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, held that Egypt’s participation in the G20 Summit “has important implications not only concerning Egypt’s growing weight in the global community but also about the development of the G20 itself, its understanding of a number of challenges still facing the group and the role Egypt could play in dealing with some of these challenges”. Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin plan to meet Monday. U.S. officials blame Russian intelligence for a hack on the Democratic National Committee that resulted in a leak of emails damaging to its presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.
Mr Putin has denied his government was involved, but cheered the release of the information.
“It was mainly the two of us who had the discussion, going into detail”.
Obama first held a “pull-aside” with President Francois Hollande of France and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany to discuss the situation in Ukraine.
The hard diplomacy on Syria set the tone for an uneven few days for Obama on his final tour of Asia as president.
The meeting of Putin and Obama is the first face-to-face meeting from November a year ago, when they met during the Summit on Climate Change in Paris.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged world leaders at the G20 meeting in China to set up a “safe zone” in Syria. The Kurds are the most effective US-backed anti-Daesh force, but the Turks consider them to be terrorists.
The Chinese president also told that the G20 pledged to oppose protectionism to reverse slowing trade growth, and agreed to continue to push forward reforms in global financial institutions.
As the president was greeted by his Chinese hosts, Obama’s aides and accompanying journalists clashed with a Chinese official as they tried to watch the ceremony.
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Obama will become the first sitting USA president to travel to Laos later Monday, where he plans to push for closer economic ties with Laos and Southeast Asia, and raise human rights abuses in the one-party communist state. “Typically the tone of our meetings is candid, blunt, businesslike”. This, after Duterte warned Obama not to question him about extrajudicial killings in his country.
