Russian Federation is partnered with Iran, which still hates the United States, despite Obama’s dogged, dishonest efforts to make Iran the ascendant regional power, no matter what the American people or their Congressional representatives think about it. America’s regional allies are angry and demoralized after Obama’s concessions to Iran, which were repaid with a string of humiliations for the U.S. Russian Federation is poised to deliver Syria to Assad, while America’s Syrian allies have to worry about other nominal American allies killing them. “The US President is absolutely honest in striving for a resolution of the Syrian conflict”, also calling the US a “key partner” on security issues.
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“It’s clear now what our respective positions are and we’ll see in coming days whether on Syria we can reach a near-term agreement”, he added.
Obama said tackling the issue effectively was important to “regain the trust” of people who feared the system is rigged, but that it would not be fixed overnight.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he had urged world powers at a G20 meeting to set up a “safe zone” in Syria where there would be no fighting and which could help stem migrant flows from the Arab nation.
“We could at least for a period of time agree on mutual and active efforts to recover the situation in Syria”, said Putin as he addressed the global summit in China.
“Our mutual work with the United States in fighting terrorist organisations, including in Syria, will be significantly improved and intensified”.
-Russian militarily partnership against extremist groups operating in Syria.
Obama has expressed skepticism that Russian Federation would hold to its agreement. Putin has denied his government was involved, but cheered the release of the information.
Leaders pose for pictures during the G20 Leaders Summit at the Hangzhou International Expo Center in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, on Sunday.
Concrete step A statement from the White House said that leaders at the G20 summit on Monday accepted that overcapacity in steel and other industries is a global issue that requires a collective response.
A senior State Department official said the talks hit a stumble on Saturday when Russian Federation pulled back from agreement on issues the USA negotiators believed had been settled.
Russian Federation and the USA have been striving for weeks to secure a ceasefire between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and moderate rebels that would expand access for hundreds of thousands of civilians caught in the crossfire.
“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.
Even though Obama bemoaned the “terrible attempted coup” that failed to topple Erdogan in July, the Turkish President did not shy away from raising differences with the USA in front of the press. The Kurds are the most effective US-backed anti-ISIL force, but the Turks consider them to be terrorists.
Japanese officials have been puzzled over China’s real motives behind the dispatch of the vessels in the vicinity of the uninhabited islands, which it calls Diaoyu, in the weeks leading up to the G-20 summit.
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But in talks earlier on Monday, Kerry and Lavrov were unable to come to terms on a truce for the second time in two weeks, with US officials stressing they would walk away if a pact could not be reached soon.
