Obama, Putin talk Syria & Ukraine on sidelines of G20 summit

[MikeWB]

Interesting to say the least.







https://www.rt.com/news/322199-putin-obama-g20-summit/

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama have discussed the situation in Syria and Ukraine in an informal meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Turkey.

According to the Kremlin's envoy to the G20, Svetlana Lukash, the informal meeting between Putin and Obama lasted for more than 30 minutes.

    Meeting of President Putin and President Obama in the first break of #G20Antalya summit. 30 minutes by now pic.twitter.com/rPWHCQwTjk
    — Svetlana Lukash (@LanaLukash) November 15, 2015

Putin's aide Yury Ushakov said the leaders had an extensive discussion on two topics – "first on Syria and then Ukraine."

"Strategic objectives relating to the fight against the Islamic State are, in principle, very similar (between Russia and the US), but there are differences on the tactics side," Ushakov was quoted as saying.

A White House official told Reuters that "President Obama and President Putin agreed on the need for a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition, which would be proceeded by UN-mediated negotiations between the Syrian opposition and regime as well a ceasefire."

The official added that Obama reiterated support for the Minsk agreement in Ukraine.

The two-day summit that started on Sunday has taken on a new urgency, in view of the Paris attacks in which 129 people died pushing the fight against terrorism to the top of the agenda.

[MikeWB]

Agitpapa on Twitter, who I presume is a Turkish kurd because he speaks Turkish and yet he has Kurdish fighters as his background image, has a really interesting analysis of what happened at G20.

Tayyip @ the G20: Looked like a whipped dog w Obama, mumbled abt "collective terror" to avoid saying ISIS, a veiled+

+allusion 2 his crazy conspitheory that ISIS+PKK work together. He called US-TR rel'ship "strategic partnership" but Obama didn't even say+

+partnership, never mind strategic. Tayyip made big concessions to appease Obama, like canceling the Chinese HQ-9+

+missile deal, bombing ISIS in Syria & cracking down on an ISIS cell in Gaziantep, where jihadists openly celebrated the Paris massacre.+

+When Putin arrived he pretended it was 2 hot & took off his jacket, then put it back on unbuttoned when meeting Tayyip, an insult 4 Turks.+

+Putin & Barack then had a very public huddle, as if telling Tayyip & Saudi "look at us intensely discussing Syria and+


+not asking you to join in." Putin hugely enjoyed these subtle insults.

Here's what Obama & Putin huddled to discuss @ the G20: http://to.ly/WwaW  SYRIANS DECIDE, NOT SAUDIS OR TURKS



https://twitter.com/agitpapa/status/665972258905657345