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Obama says climate On the sidelines in Paris:
pact ‘act of defiance’
after attacks in Paris Putin, Obama discuss Syria political settlement
NANCY BENAC V. ISACHENKOV Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Barack Obama, rear, attend the COP21
Associated Press Associated Press UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris, France, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.
LE BOURGET, France (AP) Russian President Vladimir
— Pushing for a power- Putin said Monday that (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin via AP)
ful climate deal, President he and President Barack
Barack Obama called the Obama have a shared formal apology, something reason to believe that a scale,” he said.
global talks opening Mon- understanding on how Turkey has refused to do. decision to shoot down our “Our pilots write on their
day outside Paris an “act to move toward a politi- Russia on Monday imposed plane was prompted by bombs: “For ours!” and
of defiance” against terror- cal settlement in Syria, but sanctions including a ban a desire to ensure security “For Paris!” Putin said. “And
ism that proves the world added that incidents like on Turkish food exports.. of that oil to the territory of the Turkish air force shoot
stands undeterred by Is- the recent downing of a Putin said he was “very sor- Turkey and on to sea ports down our bomber! What
lamic State-linked attacks Russian warplane by a Turk- ry” to see the break-down for loading into tankers,” kind of broad coalition we
in Europe and beyond. ish fighter jet stymie broad- of the long-cultivated ties he said, Putin had present- can talk about then?”
Obama used his speech er cooperation against ex- with Turkey, but added ed fellow leaders at the Still, he added that Russia
to more than 150 world tremism. that problems in bilateral Group of 20 summit hosted would continue its efforts
leaders to salute Paris and Putin and Obama had a ties have started building by Turkey in Antalya earlier to help form a wider coali-
its people for “insisting this half-hour meeting on the up long ago as Turkey has this month with aerial pic- tion against terror.
crucial conference go on” sidelines of a climate sum- refused to hand over Rus- tures of what he described “We will strive for helping
just two weeks after at- mit near Paris, and the Rus- sian suspects accused of as convoys of oil trucks car- form a working broad co-
tacks that killed 130 in the sian leader told reporters terrorism. rying oil from IS-controlled alition and regional and fi-
French capital. He said they discussed efforts to He also accused Turkey oilfields inSyria to the Turkish nancial interests fall behind
leaders had converged to compile a list of extremist of downing of the Russian territory. a global terror threat,” he
show resolve to fight terror- groups and another one of warplane in order to pro- While Erdogan has denied said, adding that it’s im-
ism and uphold their values members of legitimate po- tect what he described as the Russian accusations, possible to unite global
at the same time. litical opposition. massive illegal imports of Putin insisted that the ille- efforts against the IS as
“What greater rejection Put said “we have an un- the IS-produced oil, saying gal oil trade has acquired long as “some use terrorist
of those who would tear derstanding how we should that Ankara’s claim that it a massive scale. organizations to achieve
down our world than mar- proceed if we talk about was worried about Russian “We have received ad- momentary political goals
shaling our best efforts to a political settlement. We blows on the territory pop- ditional information con- and fail to observe the U.N.
save it,” Obama said. need to work on a new ulated by a Turkish ethnic firming that oil from IS- Security Council resolutions
Obama’s remarks came (Syrian) constitution, new group in Syria was “just a controlled deposits flows banning the sales of illegal-
at the start of two weeks elections and the control pretext.” “We have every into Turkey on an industrial ly produced oil.”q
of make-or-break nego- over their outcome.”
tiations to finalize a sweep- At the same time, he said,
ing global agreement to disputes such as last Tues-
cut carbon emissions and day’s shootdown of a
hopefully stave off the Russian warplane imperil
worst effects of climate cooperation on defeat-
change. Obama exhorted ing extremists and resolv-
leaders here to fight the en- ing Syria’s turmoil.
emy of cynicism — “the no- Turkey said it downed the
tion we can’t do anything” plane after it intruded its
about the warming of the airspace for 17 seconds
planet. After sketching dire despite repeated warn-
threats of submerged na- ings, while Russia insisted
tions, abandoned cities that the plane had re-
and ever-worsening flood- mained in Syria’s airspace
ing and natural disasters, and denounced Ankara’s
Obama insisted that grim move as a “treacherous
future “is one that we have stab in the back.”
the power to change.” He Turkish President Recep
urged leaders to “rise to Tayyip Erdogan has ex-
this moment,” invoking the pressed regret over the in-
late Martin Luther King Jr.’s cident, but Putin has made
observation that there’s it clear that Russia wants a
such a thing as being too
late to a cause. US warns of ‘imminent’ attack in Afghan capital
“That hour is almost
upon us,” Obama said. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ment said the embassy in Afghanistan. imminent threat, but it
Efforts to secure a climate — The U.S. Embassy said has no further information The U.S. State Department wasn’t against the em-
deal have been ham- Monday it has received about the targets, timing has long warned against bassy, U.S. citizens or U.S.
pered by a long-running “credible reports of an im- or nature of the planned travel to Afghanistan, interests.
dispute about whether minent attack” in the Af- attack. which has been mired in She would not elabo-
developing nations share ghan capital. The Taliban often carry war for decades. rate on the nature of the
the same burden as indus- A statement on the em- out attacks in Kabul and In Washington, depart- threat or who was behind
trialized nations that have bassy’s website urged U.S. elsewhere, mainly target- ment spokeswoman Eliza- it, but said “it was suffi-
historically polluted much citizens to exercise “ex- ing Afghan security forces beth Trudeau told report- cient enough that we did
more. The U.S. and other treme caution” if moving and foreigners. Supporters ers that the U.S. Embassy feel that an email and a
nations have insisted that around in Kabul during the of the Islamic State group received the reports of message should go out
all countries chip in under next 48 hours. The state- have a growing presence a specific and credible to U.S. citizens in Kabul.”q
the new agreement.q
