Barack Obama, US president, yesterday came under pressure from China and the European Council chief to back away from the pursuit of a military solution in Syria.
Amid high diplomatic tension at a G20 summit in St Petersburg, Mr Obama arrived with the international community split on any response to the assumed chemical weapons attack in Damascus last month.
China’s deputy minister of finance Zhu Guangyao pointed out that it would harm the global economy if oil prices shot up, while European Council president Herman Van Rompuy emphasised the need to address the Syria crisis “through the UN process”. He told a press briefing: “There is no military solution to the Syria conflict, there can only be a political solution.”
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