President Barack Obama wraps up his final G20 meeting as president Monday with looming questions over United States policies toward China, North Korea and regional security. “And after, we eat the ice cream at home”, said Xi, according to comments provided by the Russian delegation.
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A senior USA official said of the meeting between Obama and Putin, “It was constructive. Afterwards, Obama and Putin spoke face to face”, Peskov said.
A second day of talks in China between Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, ended Monday without a deal to announce.
Juncker also rejected USA criticism of the order for Ireland to collect $14.5 billion in back taxes from Apple.
In a news conference at the end of the G-20 meeting, Obama said a “dangerous dynamic” had taken hold in which the Russians sought to delegitimize any group that is fighting their ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Putin and Obama spoke for almost an hour and a half.
Obama said tackling the issue effectively was important to “regain the trust” of people who feared the system is rigged, but that it would not be fixed overnight.
Leaders of the G20, the world’s biggest developed and emerging economies, have agreed to oppose protectionism, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday. Obama said the aim was to reach “meaningful, serious, verifiable cessations of hostilities in Syria”.
Meanwhile, Putin told reporters that a deal with the USA to “ease tensions in Syria” may come “within a few days”, according to Russia’s state news agency TASS.
The plan would forge an unlikely US-Russian militarily partnership against extremist groups operating in Syria.
“Although Xi and Obama reached a long list of agreements on a wide range of topics such as the economy, security and climate change in bilateral talks, Western media did not seem to find these achievements as intriguing as the tiffs, into which they immediately read deeply”, the publication added.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel chats with President Barack Obama during the opening ceremony of the G-20 Leaders Summit on September 4, 2016, in Hangzhou, China.
White House officials said last week that Obama would confront Duterte about the killings.
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As the president was greeted by his Chinese hosts, Obama’s aides and accompanying journalists clashed with a Chinese official as they tried to watch the ceremony. This, after Duterte warned Obama not to question him about extrajudicial killings in his country.
