Putin: no plans for Obama G20 meeting
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Russian President Vladimir Putin currently has no plans for a bilateral meeting with US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit next week but will greet him and “shake his hand,” a Kremlin official said yesterday.
With US-Russia tensions reaching a new peak over the Syrian crisis and Moscow’s decision to give asylum to US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yury Ushakov appeared compelled to note that Obama will be treated just like any other leader.
“Putin will naturally greet Obama among other leaders, shake his hand and then we will see,” Ushakov told reporters ahead of the Group of 20 summit Russia hosts next week in St Petersburg.
Ushakov reeled off a long list of the summit’s participants who Putin planned to meet for either full-blown or brief meetings on the sidelines. But Obama was not among them.
“A meeting with Obama is not planned,” he said, admitting that the two men will still have a chance to speak to each other at the summit.
“Whether it will be standing up or in chairs, I don’t know.”
A bilateral meeting in St Petersburg was not scheduled “because we and the Americans planned a full-scale state visit (by Obama) to Moscow, which, as you know, is not happening,” Ushakov explained.
Obama scrapped plans to come to Moscow after Russia gave asylum to Snowden despite protests by Washington which wants him extradited.
The two leaders’ previous meeting at the G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Northern Ireland in June was noticeably frosty.
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