"The reports on cancelling the Moscow meeting are "also a message to Vladimir Putin, that I, President Obama, am not going to waste my precious time and my administration's resources on a relationship that just doesn't seem to bear any fruit,"
Hints that President Barack Obama may skip a September bilateral summit in Moscow suggest that Washington is ready to accept a limited relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, experts said.
Relations between the two countries have been strained by a number of issues in recent months, including the conflict in Syria, the fate of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, and Washington's criticism of the jailing in Russia of protest leader Alexei Navalny.
In mid-June, Russian and US authorities announced that the two leaders would hold a Moscow summit on September 3 and 4, before traveling to St. Petersburg for the two-day G-20 meeting.
It would be just the second time Obama visited Moscow since taking office in 2009, and his first visit since Russian leader Vladimir Putin regained power in May 2012.
The meeting however has been thrown into doubt as Washington and Moscow grapple over Snowden, who has been marooned at Moscow's international airport since June 23 after revealing a massive US-led global online surveillance program.
No comments:
Post a Comment