President Barack Obama has cancelled talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin next month, highlighting deteriorating relations between the two powers after the saga of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The White House said in a statement yesterday that Mr Obama would attend the G20 summit in St Petersburg on September 5 and 6 but would skip a bilateral summit with Mr Putin in Moscow, in part because of “Russia’s disappointing decision” to award Mr Snowden temporary asylum last week.
The statement also listed a series of other areas where it said there had not been enough diplomatic progress, including missile defence, arms control and human rights.
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