Warming delayed: Putin used a summit in Paris – RBC

Vladimir Putin did not meet in Paris with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but the second time in two weeks meeting US President Barack Obama . Their meeting took place after both spoke at the plenary session of the UN Climate Conference in Le Bourget. Russian President in his speech said that thanks to the efforts Russia succeeded for the year to slow global warming and expressed support for the conclusion of a comprehensive and legally binding agreement.

20 minutes with Obama

The meeting with Obama was held behind closed doors, the press service of the Kremlin. According to Russian news agencies, it lasted more than 30 minutes. The issues of Syria and Ukraine, told Reuters, citing a US official. Obama has expressed regret over the incident with the Russian Su-24, gave details of the conversation press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov. In Syria, Obama said President Bashar Assad should resign and should not be involved in the process of political transition, the US official said. In Ukraine, the sides noted the need for early agreement realizaitsii Minsk, said Peskov. If implemented with Russia could be lifted sanctions, said the source Reuters.

The previous meeting of Putin and Obama took place in Antalya at the summit of “twenty”. It lasted about 20 minutes, the topics of discussion were the same – Syria, Ukraine, fighting LIH. Once in Syria, the Turkish Air Force was shot down by a Russian bomber Putin at shows a possible US involvement in the incident. After talks with French President Francois Hollande in Moscow on Thursday He drew attention to the fact that the United States had transferred data of finding a Russian aircraft, as Turkey is united with the US coalition in Syria and Iraq.

However, the United States distanced themselves from these suspicions. US Ambassador to NATO, Douglas Pour during a conference call with reporters on Monday said that Turkey no one to coordinate their actions in regard to Russian aircraft, neither NATO nor the United States.

The two sides Putin

On Monday, Putin also met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Kremlin has not announced the appointment. Putin said that the world situation is changing rapidly, so the use of such a meeting. Also, Putin is scheduled to meet with the presidents of Peru, South Korea and the Israeli Prime Minister.

avoid Erdogan

With President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Putin could meet during a joint photography, but the Russian president, it was late and arrived at Le Bourget, where the meeting took place after the ceremony, which was attended, including European leaders and the president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Erdogan asked for a meeting on Friday. On Monday afternoon, he told reporters that he still hopes to meet with Putin. On Friday, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, explained that the Russian leadership is not going to touch as it does not see Turkey’s willingness to apologize.

Anti-terror steals Summit

Sources The Guardian in the French government said that the host of the meeting, French President Francois Hollande does not want to “anti-terrorist agenda stole the summit.” But the main focus at the summit will still be focused on his efforts to form a new coalition against banned in Russia as a terrorist “Islamic state.” November 13 Islamists in Paris was made a series of attacks, which killed 130 people, and on November 16 the Russian government announced that the cause of the catastrophe of A-321 liner “Kogalymavia” in the sky over the Sinai for two weeks before this was a terrorist attack.

Last week, Hollande held a shuttle talks with Cameron, Obama, Merkel, Putin and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. From each of them he was trying to achieve commitment to fully engage in the fight against the IG. The results of his efforts were mixed. Cameron assured Hollande that, whether it will, the British troops would have already joined the French air operations against the Islamists, but as long as the Parliament did not give its consent, it can offer Paris only use British military base in Cyprus and services refueling of French fighters.

Obama, himself initiated in 2014 a military alliance against the IG with Jordan, Turkey and the Gulf countries, fully supported Hollande. But Washington is not willing to take a close alliance with the other allies of the French president – Vladimir Putin: US accuses Russia videoconferencing in bombing rebel positions supported by the West, so that the exchange of intelligence between Moscow and Washington remains impossible. In the United States ready to discuss with Russia the question of ending the civil war in Syria: from this point of view, “cooperation with Moscow is becoming extremely important,” Obama said.

Germany and Italy to intervene in the war in Syria does not want to, but given commitments to strengthen assistance in other areas antiislamistskogo front. Following the talks, Merkel promised to send 650 soldiers in Mali Bundeswehr to support the deployment of French troops – it would need the consent of Deputies. Renzi, in turn, made a vow to contribute to the elimination of the existing since October outpost IG in Libya.

Reduce up to 2 ° C,

The conference in Paris should to become the most representative forum in the world after the UN General Assembly. His participation is confirmed by the delegation of 150 countries, they will lead in most cases, the leaders, including Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama, British Prime Minister, Germany and India David Cameron, Angela Merkel, Narendra Modi, Chairman Xi Jinping.

The summits like Paris, convened almost every year according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, which was signed by almost all countries of the world.

One of the most important meetings of this kind was Summit 1997 Kyoto, which was developed by the Kyoto Protocol, industrialized countries committed themselves to the world by 2012 to reduce emissions. The Protocol entered into force only in 2005, the same year at a summit in Montreal, it was decided to extend it indefinitely.

In 2009, world leaders at the Copenhagen summit failed to reach any new agreements, although then the capital of Denmark, brought together more than a hundred heads of state. Then, China, India, South Africa and the OPEC countries have refused to take on new commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The main objective of this year’s summit – to ensure that the international community has yet to make such commitments taken and kept the rise in temperature on the planet by 2020 within two degrees. This agreement meant that the temperature rise should not exceed 2,5-3,76 degrees. “The fate of humanity is at stake at this conference”, – he announced opening the summit, Hollande. According to him, “by December 12, we must reach an agreement».

The debate about whether the agreement be binding or declaratory nature, were up to the beginning of the meeting. If the United States prefer not to assume that it is preparing a legally binding treaty, France, the owner of the meeting, wants just that. As noted by The Financial Times source in the UN is likely that a single contract would not be, but to achieve the desired level of emissions reductions would be possible due to the fact that many countries had prepared for the conference “individual action plans” that would be reviewed every five years.