“I would like to highlight that in any case we are obliged to think about how we, and when I say “we” I mean myself and members of my team in the government and the presidential administration, we must consider the future development of the country politically, internally and economically”.
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Putin said in an interview with the Bloomberg news agency released on Monday that it is “too early” to speak about his possible fourth term in office and that he “has not decided anything for myself yet”.
But State Department officials hastily removed one, and Kerry turned up to report that the United States and Russian Federation had been unable to get past a handful of “tough issues”, as he put it.
The US has been targeting Russian businesses and individuals since the armed coup in Ukraine in 2013 resulted in an anti-Russian government in Kiev.
The visit opened on a high note, with the U.S and China consummating their unlikely partnership on climate change by announcing they were both entering the global emissions-cutting deal reached a year ago in Paris.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told reporters upon returning from the G20 summit in China’s Hangzhou that he plans to hold talks with Russian and USA leaders on a ceasefire in Syria’s Aleppo, TASS reports.
But negotiators failed to work though differences, and the talks have ended for now. The Kurds are the most effective US-backed anti-IS force, but the Turks consider them to be terrorists. Upon Obama’s arrival, social media exploded with speculation China had slighted Obama after there was no staircase awaiting him on the tarmac, forcing the president to deplane through a set of internal stairs he rarely uses.
Obama was slated to leave China Monday evening, after a closing press conference. As the president was greeted by his Chinese hosts, Obama’s aides and journalists accompanying the president clashed with a Chinese official as they tried to watch the ceremony.
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Obama’s comments came at the end of his last G-20 summit meeting, a gathering that served to dramatize both his lame-duck status and the changed world that his successor will face. His next stop is Laos, where he’ll promote his effort to deepen ties to Southeast Asia.
