Month: September 2013

G20 Summit Site St. Petersburg, Russia 9:46 A.M. MSK PRESIDENT XI: (As interpreted.) Honorable President Obama, it’s my great pleasure to meet you again. Our meeting today reminds me of…

G20 Summit Site St. Petersburg, Russia 4:53 P.M. MSK PRESIDENT OBAMA: (in progress) — I thank France and President Hollande for their outstanding efforts in Mali. We congratulate the Malian…

G20 Summit Site St. Petersburg, Russia 5:55 P.M. MSK PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good evening. Let me begin by thanking President Putin and the people of St. Petersburg and the people of…

Crowne Plaza Hotel St. Petersburg, Russia 7:31 P.M. MSK PRESIDENT OBAMA: I just want to say thank you to all the participants in this roundtable. This is an incredible and…

Orr Elementary School Washington, D.C. 1:05 P.M. EDT MRS. OBAMA: Well, hello. How’s everyone doing? It is a pleasure and an honor to be with all of you here today…

Building on their June 8 accord on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in Sunnylands, President Obama and President Xi agreed at their bilateral meeting as a next step to establish a contact group…

The Leaders and Representatives of Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America made the following statement…

Linked below are official G20 documents: Saint Petersburg Leaders Declaration Saint Petersburg Action Plan Tax Annex to the Saint Petersburg Leaders Declaration

Today, President Obama reached separate agreements with the G-20 and with China to combat global climate change by addressing the rapid growth in the use and release of climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons…

In a candid and cordial first meeting held on the margins of the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, National Security Advisor Rice and Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Ushakov reviewed the…