President Obama and Putin spent about 90 minutes in a “constructive” meeting about getting humanitarian aid into the country, reducing violence, and cooperating on combating militant groups, the official told reporters.
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Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan makes a point at a news conference after the closing of G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, September 5, 2016.
Obama will become the first sitting US 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.
“We haven’t yet closed the gaps in a way where we think it would actually work”, Obama said during the news conference.
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The proposed deal would have stopped their ally, dictator Bashar al-Assad, from bombing civilians and USA -backed rebels, while also allowing aid into starving cities like Aleppo.
“Given the failure of previous cessations of hostilities to hold, we approach it with some skepticism”, Obama said. They didn’t reach any agreements. The pair also discussed Ukraine and Russia’s cyber intrusions, the official said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Monday on Monday he that proposed a “no fly zone ” in Northern Syria to the USA and Russian Federation, the setting up of a no-fly zone in northern Syria, CNN Turk reports.
These entities will be listed on the Entity List under the destinations of the Crimea region of Ukraine, Hong Kong, India, and Russian Federation.
The leaked emails showed that Democratic Party officials leaned favorably toward Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders and led to Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigning from her post as the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
Mr Putin even claimed a deal could be reached within days.
The hard diplomacy on Syria set the tone for an uneven few days for Obama on his last tour through Asia as president.
But the focus on climate quickly gave way to the failed Syria talks.
At the press conference Monday, Obama also addressed concerns about cybersecurity, acknowledging that the US has “had problems with cyber intrusions” from Russian Federation and other countries.
“Many of the groups considered acceptable by the US have actually affiliated with the Nusra Front, while the Nusra Front is using them to avoid being attacked”, Ryabkov told Russian media, citing a longstanding complaint of his government.
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.
Obama’s next stop is Laos, where he’ll promote his effort to deepen ties to Southeast Asia.
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.
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Obama said he has instructed his aides to determine whether it would still be productive to hold the face-to-face meeting with Duterte.
