Russia, Turkey to form joint investment fund – Russian minister

President Barack Obama said on Sunday that USA and Russian negotiators are working “around the clock” to try to strike a deal to reduce violence in Syria, but added “we’re not there yet”.

Obama is recounting the nine-year “secret war” that the USA conducted in Laos during the Vietnam War.

Last week ties came under fresh strain when Turkish forces attacked US -supported Kurdish fighters in the Syrian city of Jarabulus. He says the two leaders want peace and security for all peoples.

The two leaders and their delegations met for over four hours before Obama and Xi talked one-on-one as they took a night-time stroll.

The outreach is a core element of Obama’s attempt to shift USA diplomatic and military resources away from the Middle East and into Asia in order to counter China’s dominance in the region and ensure a foothold in growing markets. The failure of the last truce is apparently weighing heavily on President Obama and USA officials, who are skeptical that Russian Federation will stick to the terms of any deal – specifically, that the Kremlin will actually use its influence to pressure Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to stop waging attacks the moderate opposition forces who are backed by the US coalition forces.

“We’ve got a lot of planes and a lot of helicopters and a lot of cars and a lot of guys, and if you’re a host country, sometimes it may feel a little bit much”, Obama conceded. USA officials blame Russian intelligence for a hack on the Democratic National Committee that resulted in a leak of emails damaging to its presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

In a vague reference to Gulen, Obama said the Justice Department and USA national security teams “will cooperate with Turkish authorities to determine how we can make sure that those who carried out these activities are brought to justice”.

Obama said he had heard about the comment and instructed his aides to determine whether it would still be productive to hold the face-to-face meeting. “After that Obama and Putin had a one-on-one meeting behind closed doors”, Peskov said. Several government buildings, including the Turkish Parliament and the Presidential Palace, were also damaged.

There are double standards which we need to eradicate – “calling this terrorist good and that terrorist bad”, for example.

Obama’s visit started on a high note, with the U.S and China consummating their unlikely partnership on climate change by announcing they were both entering the global emissions-cutting deal reached previous year in Paris.

“This is something we are going to fight for”, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

To the frustration of the White House, these weighty matters seemed to be overshadowed by a made-for-social-media moment from Obama’s arrival at the airport.

At the start of his trip, a logistical spat over missing airline airplane stairs needed for Obama to reach the red carpet at Hangzhou airport and verbal altercations between United States and Chinese officials grabbed headlines.

During his news conference, Obama faced questions about both candidates’ opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, a centerpiece of his Asia policy, which he’s urgently trying to promote on his final trip to the continent as its fate hangs in the balance.