At the same time, Obama said he did not trust Russian President Vladimir Putin, nor did he believe that Putin could ease the intensity of the violence in Syria.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry also took part in the negotiations.
“Facing current risks and challenges in the world economy, we will continue to reinforce macro policy communication and coordination”, Xi said at the closing meeting.
There was no mention of a global stimulus or other joint action, which officials said earlier was unworkable because economic conditions vary widely from country to country.
“What we can not do is have a situation in which suddenly this becomes the wild wild west, where countries that have significant cyber capacity start engaging in. unhealthy competition or conflict through these means”. “If we can not get the type of agreement we want, we will walk away from that effort”.
Putin and Obama spoke for almost an hour and a half. The presidents appeared in congenial moods, with one photo showing Putin smiling broadly.
“I urge all leaders, particularly G20 countries, to accelerate their domestic ratification processes so we can turn the aspirations of Paris into the transformative climate action the world so urgently needs”, Ban said at a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 Summit. Lavrov and Kerry were seen conducting an active conversation. Any deal would depend on Moscow using its influence with Syrian President Bashar Assad to persuade the Syrian leader to ground planes and stop the assault on opposition forces.
That group has renamed itself Fateh Al-Sham Front after renouncing its status as Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, but Kerry stressed that “Nusra is Al-Qaeda, and no name change by Nusra hides what Nusra really is and what it tries to do”.
-Russian military partnership focusing firepower on “common enemies” in Syria, Obama said.
“But it is worth trying”, Obama went on.
“To the extent that there are children and women and innocent civilians who can get food and medical supplies and get some relief from the constant terror of bombings, that’s worth the effort”.
“The communique reaffirms that it is a global issue, and requires burden-sharing among the countries”, the diplomat told reporters, shortly before the declaration was due to be released at the end of the summit.
Obama shrugged off that incident, too, acknowledging that disagreements over press access often arise with China but contending that they were not emblematic of the US-China relationship.
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The test prompted a quick meeting at the summit between South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who agreed to cooperate on monitoring the situation, according to a Japanese statement.
