Russian President Vladimir Putin considers it “absolutely premature” to say now if he will seek a new presidential term in 2018, the Bloomberg news agency reported on Monday.
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The two leaders interacted briefly on Wednesday night during a dinner for leaders gathered here in the Lao capital for a summit, but exchanged only “pleasantries”, according to a White House official.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States has been focused on making sure that the agreement allows for a “period of calm so that we can get urgently needed humanitarian assistance to populations that are in need”.
Duterte has been under intense global scrutiny over the more than 2,000 suspected drug dealers and users killed since he took office.
“It used to be, ‘To the victor belongs the spoils, ‘” Trump said. But this depends to a certain degree on talks between the Turkish, Russian and USA chief diplomats. Clinton began the forum saying her long experience in government as a US senator and secretary of state made her uniquely qualified to serve as president.
The deal depends on the two sides agreeing to closer military coordination against extremist groups operating in Syria, something the Russians have long sought and the US resisted. But it’s bad enough if a President Trump were to feel pressure to tilt in Russia’s favor because he was indebted to Putin-allied investors.
“There was some backsliding from some of the recent discussions in Geneva” between Kerry and Lavrov, the official said, adding that on Sunday there was a “narrowing back” to the positions the parties had taken coming into the meeting.
He declined to say whether a meeting on Syria between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry, originally planned for September 8-9 in Geneva, would be held. Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, has accused him of working to please the Kremlin.
“I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin”.
“Well, he does have an 82% approval rating”, Trump said.
Mr Obama won the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections handily by mustering large numbers of young, black, Latino and Asian voters to go to the polls. And the USA must get rebels to break ranks with the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, a task that grew tougher after its fighters last month successfully broke the siege of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and the site of fierce recent fighting.
Obama said both of their governments should work together to advance relations between their two countries.
The Republican presidential candidate told supporters he would ask generals to craft a roadmap to the IS group’s annihilation.
Russian forces have aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to target US-backed opposition fighters that Moscow and Damascus claim are terrorists.
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Obama’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping also veered into delicate territory, with a lengthy White House description detailing how Obama had pressed Xi to abide by an worldwide tribunal’s ruling against China over the South China Sea.
