Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with his United States counterpart Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders Summit in Hangzhou on September 5.
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Obama described the talk with Putin as “candid, blunt and businesslike”.
He added the United States needed to act fast “to provide some humanitarian relief to families, children, women who are suffering enormously under the burdens of that war”.
The two countries are also thought to be trying to reach a deal on some form of limited military co-operation.
“The faster we can provide some relief to folks on the ground, the better off we’re going to be”, he added.
“Given the gaps of trust that exist, that’s a tough negotiation, and we haven’t yet closed the gaps in a way where we think it would actually work”, Obama said during a news conference after the meeting. “The issue is not with us, the issue is with the British side”, Putin told reporters.
Obama has expressed skepticism that Russian Federation would hold to its agreement.
The U.S. backs some of the rebel groups against Assad, seeing them as relative moderates. “We want to achieve this goal”, he said.
“What we can not do is have a situation where this becomes the wild, wild West, where countries that have significant cyber capacity start engaging in unhealthy competition or conflict through these means”, the president said.
Obama and Putin also discussed the conflict in Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting the government, and the implementation of an agreement to stop the violence. Putin has denied his government was involved, but cheered the release of the information. But U.S. was wary of enter a deal that would not be effective. There was agreement, not just between myself and Mr. (Vladimir) Putin, but with Chancellor (Angela) Merkel and President (Francois) Hollande, that that effort should increase in urgency over the next several weeks.
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.
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The tensions continued throughout the trip as Chinese officials severely restricted the media’s ability to attend Obama’s G20 events. Duterte on Monday warned that Obama should not question him, during a scheduled meeting Tuesday, about extrajudicial killings in his country.
