ALJAZEERA: US president Barack Obama is cancelling his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled for next month in Moscow, an administration official said on Wednesday.
“Given our lack of progress on issues such as missile defense and arms control, trade and commercial relations, global security issues, and human rights and civil society in the last twelve months, we have informed the Russian government that we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement.
Obama will still attend a G20 summit in St Petersburg, but scrapped the one-on-one meeting partly because of Russia’s decision to grant temporary asylum to former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden… (more)
