US President Barack Obama says he hopes his successor Donald Trump will “stand up” to Russia when it breaches international norms, citing the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.
Obama says he hopes Trump, who has voiced admiration for President Vladimir Putin, “is willing to stand up to Russia where they are deviating from our values and international norms.”
Speaking at a Berlin joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama says Russia is an important country and a military superpower with “influence around the world.”
US President Barack Obama addresses a press conference with the German Chancellor after their meeting at the chancellery in Berlin on November 17, 2016. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
But he stresses that he hopes Trump does not take an approach of “if we just cut some deals with Russia, even if it hurts people or even if it violates international norms or even if it leaves smaller countries vulnerable, or creates long-term problems in regions like Syria, that we just do whatever is convenient at the time.”
“And that will be something that I think we’ll learn more about as the president-elect puts his team together.”
— AFP
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