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white house has said, US President Barack Obama will not meet his Russian counterpart
Vladmir Putin following Russian decision to grant asylum to US former
intelligence worker Edward Snowden. The statement continued to say that Mr Obama will however, still attend
the G20 economic summit in St Petersburg.
The decision to snub the one-one
meeting with Mr. Putin was made during Obama’s trip to Los Angeles where he
said he was disappointed with Russia’s decision to grant Snowden asylum for one
year. Mr Snowden's asylum is said to
have deepened the pre-existing tension between the two counties according to
White House Aide.
The former CIA worker admitted revealing
the surreptitious US surveillance programme in June to the Guardian and
Washington Post newspapers. The documents and details released indicated that
the US government through NSA programmes gathers data on telephone calls,
social media and emails.
After leaking the information, Mr Snowden
fled the US, to Hong Kong, and later to Russia. He was kept at Moscow Air port
in a transit area as the US asked other countries to deport him. On Thursday 1/08,
his lawyer said Mr Snowden had been granted asylum to stay in year for a year.
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