(The two presidents) discussed, above all, Syria and Ukraine.
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President Barack Obama says the NFL quarterback who is refusing to stand for the national anthem is the latest in a long line of professional athletes who have exercised their constitutional right to make a statement about social issues. “And I think it’s premature for us to say that there is a clear path forward, but there is the possibility at least for us to make some progress on that front”.
Speaking in China amid the G20 summit in China, President Barack Obama said a lack of trust between the United States and Russian Federation as a hindrance to an agreement between the two countries to establish peace in Syria.
Obama also said that the U.S. and Russian Federation have “deep differences” regarding the sides they support in Syrian and the different approach to bring peace to the country.
“After that Obama and Putin held a one-on-one meeting behind closed doors”, the Kremlin spokesman said.
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”.
He added that the meeting went off well.
President Barack Obama called off a planned meeting Tuesday with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, seeking distance from a USA ally’s leader during a diplomatic tour that’s put Obama in close quarters with a cast of contentious world figures. Instead, he worked to reassure the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally the US would help bring to justice whoever was responsible for plotting the coup.
State Department officials have declined to elaborate on what sticking points are preventing a deal, though the USA official said the remaining differences revolved around how the plan would be implemented.
US officials say they are awaiting sufficient evidence to justify the request to extradite Gulen, who is 75 and says he is in failing health. They didn’t reach any agreements. Negotiations between Kerry and Lavrov, aimed at a plan to increase military cooperation between the United States and Russian Federation so that terrorists in Syria are better targeted and civilian casualties are reduced, have not yet succeeded.
Turkish army launched Operation Euphrates Shield on August 24 in order to improve border security, support coalition forces, and eliminate the threat posed by terrorist organizations, especially Daesh.
Managing Duterte has become a worsening headache for Obama since the Filipino took office on June 30, pledging his foreign policy wouldn’t be constricted by reliance on the U.S. Washington has tried largely to look the other way as Duterte has pursued closer relations with China, a marked shift for the Philippines considering recent tensions over Beijing’s aspirations in the South China Sea.
To the frustration of the White House, these weighty matters seemed to be overshadowed by a made-for-social-media moment from Obama’s arrival at the airport.
The president says he hopes to make progress in accounting for missing USA servicemen from the Vietnam war.
Russian forces have aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to target US-backed opposition fighters that Moscow and Damascus claim are terrorists.
But the Russian leader said the release of information hacked from the DNC was a benefit. It is believed that the DNC was just one of many US political organizations targeted by the hackers. “We are now cooperating with Russian Federation in the region of Aleppo”.
Meanwhile on Monday, a string of explosions across Syria, a lot of them targeting government checkpoints, killed at least 40 people.
Elsewhere, four people died in an explosion at a checkpoint in the city of Homs, and one person died in a bombing in the countryside surrounding Damascus, the capital.
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In Laos, Obama planned to acknowledge damage caused by a US bombing campaign across the border in Vietnam during America’s war with that country.
