Big boys discuss hacking, N Korea
BY Agencies10 Jun 2013 12:31 AM GMT
Agencies10 Jun 2013 12:31 AM GMT
US PresidentBarack Obama’s first summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping yielded ‘positive and constructive’results with their marathon talks achieving all goals that were set, a top White House official has said.
Spread over two days, Friday and Saturday, at a picturesque desert resort in Southern California, Obama, 51, and Xi, 59, had several rounds of meetings spread over nearly eight hours on a range of bilateral, regional and global issues.
‘The president had very good discussions in an informal atmosphere, uniquely informal atmosphere, with president Xi over the last two days,’ said National Security Advisor Tom Donilon after the conclusion of the two-day summit.
‘The discussions were positive and constructive, wide-ranging and quite successful in achieving the goals that we set forth for this meeting,’ he added. Cyber security and cyber issues, a ‘centre of the relationship’ between the world’s largest economies, were one of the important topics when the two leaders had discussions on economic issues.
‘The president went through this in some detail and asked China government to engage on this issue and understand that if the direct theft of US property continues, it’s going to become a very difficult problem, harming the economic relationship between the two super powers.
Among other things, Donilon said the two leaders agreed that ‘North Korea has to denuclearise, that neither country will accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state and that US and China would work together to deepen cooperation and dialogue to achieve denuclearization.’
The two sides stressed the importance of continuing to apply pressure both to halt North Korea’s ability to proliferate and to make clear that its continued pursuit of nuclear weapons is incompatible with its economic development goals, he said.
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