Putin leaves G20 summit, hints at resolving Ukraine impasse


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London, Nov 17, 2014: Russian President Vladimir Putin left the G20 summit a day early on Sunday after assuring world leaders that there was a good chance of resolving the conflict in Ukraine. 

 

Justifying his early departure Putin said, "It will take nine hours to fly to Vladivostok and another eight hours to get to Moscow. I need four hours sleep before I get back to work on Monday. We have completed our business." 

 

However, the summit feels that the real reason is the ’tense’ 50-minute meeting between Putin and British Prime Minister David Cameron over the weekend and subsequent frosty meetings with other world leaders—German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande. 

 

Putin said, "Today the situation in Ukraine in my view has good chances for resolution, no matter how strange it may sound, but certain structures had been established on both sides that could handle the tasks they are facing better." 

 

Cameron informed Putin that the West is now considering further sanctions on Russia. EU is planning to meet later this week to extend the list of people subject to asset freezes. Western leaders squarely blamed Moscow for the tensions in Ukraine and threatened to slap more sanctions if it did not quell the crisis. 

 

Putin said, "Do they want to bankrupt our banks? In that case they will bankrupt Ukraine. Have they thought about what they are doing at all or not? Or has politics blinded them? As we know eyes constitute a peripheral part of brain. Was something switched off in their brains?" 

 

Putin spent as long as eight hours to meet top world leaders in one to one meetings on the margins of the summit. 

 

Cameron said after the latest round of meetings that a resolution might take time. However, he felt that Putin had acknowledged that Ukraine was a single political space. Cameron said: "We are very clear with Russia that the continued destabilisation of Ukraine is simply unacceptable. If Russia continues to destabilise Ukraine there will be further sanctions. There is a cost to sanctions, but there would be a far greater cost to allow a frozen conflict on the continent of Europe to be maintained. President Putin can see he is at a crossroads." 




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