Obama, Putin about Syria and Ukraine in quick summit meet

“The billionaire-turned-politician needs to prove that derailing the global economy has not been one of the reasons why he ran for U.S. president”, official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary piece published Saturday.

President Rodrigo R. Duterte said on Monday he missed the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ photo shoot and gala dinner in Lima, Peru because of jet lag.

After their brief talk, Obama greeted others at the meeting before sitting down.

Before the America’s president-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of the office, a leading Republican Senator, Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, and his fellow party member Lindsey Olin Graham will lead a congressional delegation to Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia January to push back against Trump on Russian Federation policy.

During the campaign, United States intelligence accused Russian Federation of directing hacks to influence the election after sensitive emails from the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign were leaked. USA intelligence officials have tied the Russian government to the hacking and subsequent leaking of Democrats’ emails that hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

“We can not sit on the sidelines as a party and let allegations against a foreign government interfering in our election process go unanswered because it may have been beneficial to our case for the moment”, Graham said, according to The Hill, adding he intends to be “a bit of a hard ass” when it comes to Russian Federation.

Under Obama, the USA has enacted severe sanctions on Russian Federation over its aggressive behavior in Ukraine and has sought unsuccessfully to persuade Moscow to stop intervening in Syria’s civil war to help prop up Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Syrian government forces last Tuesday launched a bid to retake the eastern rebel-held side of Aleppo using air strikes, barrel bombs and artillery.

President Barack Obama spent the last day of his final foreign trip attempting to make headway on one of the most painful aspects of his foreign policy portfolio: the civil war in Syria.

According to the Kremlin, Putin and Trump agreed that the current bilateral relationship is unsatisfactory, saying that they would work together to normalize it.

President Putin congratulated President Duterte for winning the May 9, 2016 elections and likewise expressed his pleasure at meeting him.

He also said that he hopes that President-elect Donald Trump will “stand up” to Putin if and when Moscow undertakes policies that contrast with US interests.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is “generally getting it right” in the Syrian conflict, a Ukip leadership candidate has said.

Barack Obama takes his seat at the APEC table, beside Thai Deputy Prime Minister Prajin Juntong while Vladimir Putin looks straight ahead. Unsurprisingly, the Obama administration’s efforts to arm the few factions that cleared the vetting process were an abject failure. They seem to start war but are afraid to go to war.

In his classic, defiant way Putin replied: “We are not fearful”. The Chinese President called on the two neighboring nations to enhance synergy of their national development strategies, and further integrate the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).

During a press conference in Berlin on November 17, Obama said Trump should continue to support U.S. policy in these areas.