US President Barack Obama yesterday warned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin against intervening in Syria’s civil war, suggesting that Putin is aware of the dangers his country faces by entering the bloody conflict.
“I think Mr. Putin understands that, with Afghanistan fresh in the memory, for him to simply get bogged down in an inconclusive and paralyzing civil conflict is not the outcome that he is looking for,” Obama said at a news conference at the ongoing climate change Summit in Paris.
“I think it is possible over the next several months that we both see a shift in calculation in the Russians and a recognition that it is time to bring the civil war in Syria to a close,” the US leader added.
“In the immediate aftermath of a terrible attack like happened here in Paris, sometimes it is natural for people to despair. But look at Paris. You cannot tear down Paris because of the demented actions of a handful of individuals. The beauty, the joy, the life, the culture, the people and the diversity. That is going to win out every time.”
On carbon reduction targets of the climate summit, Obama said: “If we let the world keep warming as fast as it is, and sea levels rising as fast as they are, and weather patterns keep shifting in more unexpected ways, then before long we are going to have to devote more and more and more of our economic and military resources not to growing opportunity for our people but to adapting to the various consequences of a changing planet.”
On the tighter gun laws after last week’s shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic, Obama also said: “At the end of the day, we all have to act to ensure we are preventing people who are deranged or have violent tendencies from getting high-power weapons.”
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