Kalın said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had discussed a potential end to hostilities around the besieged city with U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the weekend’s G20 meeting in China.
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President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to reach a deal Monday on a cease-fire for Syria, but the two sides have agreed to continue negotiating even as Syrian government forces close in on the beseiged city of Aleppo.
Turkey announced plans for a sovereign wealth fund last month, meant to boost annual growth over the next decade and reassure investors unnerved by a failed coup attempt in July.
The president also discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which has come under attack from both parties during this campaign season.
“After that Obama and Putin held a one-on-one meeting behind closed doors”, he said, according to TASS.
The spokesman added: “In a phone conversation with Putin a week before the G20 summit, Erdogan said ‘Eid al-Adha is coming”.
Putin and Obama spoke for almost an hour and a half.
He said talks between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on a Syrian truce and provision of humanitarian aid could take “several more days”.
Speaking of Syrian issues at the news conference, Erdogan said he had discussed Syria with China, but now Turkey has no cooperation with China on operations in the region.
He said his talks had been “candid, blunt and businesslike”. However, we have to be sure that this agreement would be really effective. Obama met earlier with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the same issue.
He said the goal of the US was not to duplicate in cyberspace a “cycle of escalation” akin to other arms races in the past, but to start “instituting some norms” so that everybody is acting responsibly.
The White House now says President Barack Obama will not meet with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte at a gathering in Laos of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Trump, Obama said, has “been able to appeal to a certain group of folks who feel left out or are anxious about the rapidity of demographic change, social change, who, in some cases, have very legitimate concerns around the economy and are feeling left behind”.
Obama said on Sunday that Russian participation was essential.
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Russian Federation will not countenance the rebels unseating President Bashar al-Assad, who also has the backing of Iran and Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah. The Assad regime in particular of course has Russian support.
