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Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin remained at odds about the role Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would play in his country\u2019s future, according to a U.S. official.<\/h1>\nBarack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin remained at odds about the role Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would play in his country\u2019s future, according to a U.S. official.<\/h1>\nThe two leaders met following highly contentious and conflicting speeches at the UN General Assembly earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
A senior administration official who briefed reporters about the summit, described the one-on-one meeting as a \u201cbusiness-like back and forth” but “productive” in general.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was not a situation where either one of them was seeking to score points in a meeting,” the White House official said. “I think there was a shared desire to figure out a way in which we can address the situation in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two leaders talked for about 95 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the Russians certainly understood the importance there being a political resolution in Syria and there being a process that pursues a political resolution,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a difference about what the outcome of that process would be, particularly as it relates to Mr. Assad.”<\/p>\n
Prior to the sit down, the two leaders had already publicized their positions on Assad.<\/p>\n
Obama called for Assad to be replaced as a part of the political solution in Syria but Putin told delegates that Assad should remain in power and be supported in the fight against Daesh.<\/p>\n
The highly anticipated meeting also took place amid already heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow as Russia has increased its military capacity in Syria in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
The official said the U.S. does not prejudge Russia\u2019s military build-up in Syria as “destructive to a positive outcome in Syria” but Washington’s assessment would be based on Moscow’s actions there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have clarity on their objectives,\u201d the official said. \u201cTheir objectives are to go after ISIL and to support the [Assad] government.\u201d<\/p>\n
But there was at least one point of agreement. According to the official, the leaders agreed their militaries should communicate in order to \u201cde-conflict,\u201d or avoid any military conflict as a result of miscalculation.<\/p>\n
Regarding Ukrainian conflict, however, very little detail came out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith respect to Ukraine, the president reiterated our support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Ukraine government,\u201d the official said, and added that Obama noted the opportunity to implement the Minks accord in the next few months (Anadolu Agency).<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 14)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin remained at odds about the role Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would play in his country\u2019s future, according to a U.S. official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,37,101,14],"tags":[629,13264,542,6462,25093,13262,13263,13021,1567],"class_list":["post-57533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-world","tag-barack-obama","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-obama","tag-russian-president","tag-russian-president-vladimir-putin","tag-syrian-president","tag-syrian-president-bashar-al-assad","tag-un-general-assembly","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}