Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama say their “opinions do not coincide” on the bloody Syrian civil war but they’ve agreed to “push” the Assad regime and opposition forces back to the negotiation table for peace talks.
Putin and Obama emerged late Monday from a two-hour bilateral meeting at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland to announce they still don’t see eye-to-eye on the Syrian conflict, but they’re both committed to reducing escalating violence and use of chemical weapons.
“Of course, our opinions do not coincide, but all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria and to stop the growth of victims and to solve the situation peacefully, including by bringing the parties to the negotiating table in Geneva. We agreed to push the parties to the negotiating table,” Putin said through a translator following his bilateral meeting with Obama.
“We do have different perspectives on the problem, but we share an interest in reducing the violence, securing chemical weapons and ensuring they are neither used nor are they subject to proliferation, and that we want to try to resolve the issue through political means, if possible,” Obama said.
“And so we have instructed our teams to continue to work on the potential of a Geneva followup to the first meeting.”
The two leaders also released a joint statement saying they have agreed to hold a U.S.-Russia summit in Moscow on Sept. 3-4, 2013, to “discuss in greater detail the full range of bilateral and international issues.”
Both sides have reached an understanding on a “positive agenda for relations between our countries” that includes arms control, non-proliferation, international security, trade, responding to global threats, countering terrorism and militant extremism, says the statement.
Putin and Obama emerged late Monday from a two-hour bilateral meeting at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland to announce they still don’t see eye-to-eye on the Syrian conflict, but they’re both committed to reducing escalating violence and use of chemical weapons.
“Of course, our opinions do not coincide, but all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria and to stop the growth of victims and to solve the situation peacefully, including by bringing the parties to the negotiating table in Geneva. We agreed to push the parties to the negotiating table,” Putin said through a translator following his bilateral meeting with Obama.
“We do have different perspectives on the problem, but we share an interest in reducing the violence, securing chemical weapons and ensuring they are neither used nor are they subject to proliferation, and that we want to try to resolve the issue through political means, if possible,” Obama said.
“And so we have instructed our teams to continue to work on the potential of a Geneva followup to the first meeting.”
The two leaders also released a joint statement saying they have agreed to hold a U.S.-Russia summit in Moscow on Sept. 3-4, 2013, to “discuss in greater detail the full range of bilateral and international issues.”
Both sides have reached an understanding on a “positive agenda for relations between our countries” that includes arms control, non-proliferation, international security, trade, responding to global threats, countering terrorism and militant extremism, says the statement.
- Unknown Updated at: Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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