Obama will not visit Russki Island

Obama will not visit Russki Island

US President Barack Obama was informed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the G8 summit at Camp David on May 18-19, White House spokesperson Jay Carney said. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will attend the summit instead, RIA Novosti reports.

Putin and Obama plan to meet at the G20 summit in Los Cabos (Mexico) on June 18-19.

Obama cannot visit the APEC summit of September 1-8 at Vladivostok, because the Democratic Party will have an assembly on September 3. The US sees presidential polls in early November.

US Deputy Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Philip Gordon said at the international committee of the Senate on Thursday that Washington takes Putin’s refusal to attend the G8 summit as business. He added that the US is still interested in cooperation with Russia and reminded that Putin took part in concluding all agreements of the last 3 years. This includes the START-3, transit of cargo to Afghanistan, cooperation in peaceful nuclear energy, joint work at the UN Security Council, Russian membership in the WTO.

The Russian president does not plan to visit Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the near future. Putin planned to visit Kazakhstan in the second half of May, but it was postponed until early June.

Vladimir Yevseyev, Director of the Center for Socio-Political Studies, told Vestnik Kavkaza that sending Medvedev is the right step, but its goals are not just formation of the new Cabinet.

Putin does not want to make his first visit to the US. He plans to visit China first in June. Putin was in Beijing in autumn. The first visit to China emphasizes the special relations the two states have. There is no progress in talks on Russian-US relations, missile defenses or any other issues.

Putin will have time to discuss other events. They include the Iranian nuclear talks in Baghdad on May 23, the problem of Syria where parliamentary polls were held on May 7.

Yevseyev added that Putin may make a stop at Astana when returning from Beijing, as a symbol of friendship and devotion to forming the Eurasian Union.

 

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