Speaking on board the plane taking him to the G20 summit in Mexico, the Prime Minister said that if Greece “wants to stay in the eurozone” then the country’s politicians “have got to get on with it”. 
 
 Yesterday’s re-run of the Greek elections was narrowly won by the New Democracy party which supports the principle of agreeing to austerity measures in return for an international bailout. It is hoped that the party can form a Coalition with other parties who will back sharp cuts in public spending. 
 
 There had been fears that the anti-austerity parties would hold the balance of power in Greece – a result which could have forced the country out of the euro as international financial assistance was withdrawn from the beleaguered economy. 
 
 However, after initially rising in the wake of the news, financial markets began to fall as investors digested the implications of the election result. The cost of Spanish borrowing also rose above the psychologically-important level of seven percent. 
 
 Mr Cameron and other world leaders arrived in the luxury Mexican beach resort of Los Cabos this morning for talks on the world economy. 
 
 Speaking on his way to the G20 summit, Mr Cameron said: “The outcome of the Greek election looks clear in terms of a commitment to stay in the eurozone and to accept the terms of the memorandum. 
 
 “But I think those parties that want that to happen can't afford to delay and position themselves. If you are a Greek political party and want to stay in the eurozone and accept the consequences that follow you have got to get on with it and help form a government. A delay could be very dangerous." 
 
 It is understood that Mr Cameron had a conference call with other European leaders including Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor and Francois Hollande, the French President, before leaving London last night. ||||| Strained ties cloud Obama, Putin G20 meeting 
 
 LOS CABOS, Mexico — Barack Obama will embark on what may be a treacherous presidential relationship with Vladimir Putin on Monday, as rising antagonism, especially over Syria, clouds reset US ties with Moscow. 
 
 President Obama will face off with President Putin for the first time since the former KGB man's return to the Kremlin in closely watched and delicate talks ahead of the G20 summit in the Mexican resort of Los Cabos. 
 
 The US leader sees the "reset" of relations with Russia -- engineered with ex-president Dmitry Medvedev -- as a foreign policy highlight that has yielded a START nuclear arms treaty and cooperation on Iran and Afghanistan. 
 
 But angry exchanges over Syria, Putin's prickly approach and political turbulence in both Moscow and Washington appear to be driving the relationship between two former Cold War foes towards open confrontation. 
 
 So Monday's meeting is a chance more to head off a serious rupture than to chase breakthroughs. 
 
 Matthew Rojansky of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said Putin and Obama should perform "damage control" and establish an understanding so current tensions do not boil over. 
 
 "I think that what they can do is kind of have a meeting of the minds and maybe a little bit of anticipatory strategizing politically on what happens if some undesirable thing happens," he said. 
 
 Facing a tough reelection fight, Obama has little room for maneuver. 
 
 He was famously caught on an open mic in Seoul in March asking Medvedev to tell Putin he would have more flexibility on a US missile defense scheme, which Moscow fiercely opposes, after November's election. 
 
 Obama also needs to protect his political flank: his Republican foe Mitt Romney has branded Russia a geopolitical threat. 
 
 "President Obama's 'reset' policy toward Russia has clearly failed," Romney said last week. 
 
 "Russia has openly armed and protected a murderous regime in Syria, frustrated international sanctions on Iran, and opposed American efforts on a range of issues. 
 
 "This is an unfortunate failure of President Obama's foreign policy." 
 
 Washington still hopes Russia will eventually help ease the crisis in Syria, though is increasingly impatient over its refusal to permit the UN Security Council to mastermind President Bashar al-Assad's ouster. 
 
 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week accused Moscow of supplying attack helicopters to Assad. An angry Russia said it had merely repaired Syria's existing aircraft. 
 
 Analysts say Russia feels burned after getting assurances from the West last year that regime change was not on the agenda in Libya, only for Western warplanes to help the opposition topple Moamer Kadhafi. 
 
 Moscow also fears losing a key geopolitical ally, and naval bases with access to the eastern Mediterranean, should Assad's brutal regime fall, and be replaced by a government less sympathetic to Moscow. 
 
 The White House, seeking Russian acquiescence in a Yemen-like power transfer, made clear Friday it did not seek to end Russian interests in Syria. 
 
 When Obama and Putin meet, the US leader may feel a touch of nostalgia for the friendly summits and hamburger lunch he once enjoyed with Medvedev. 
 
 But US officials insist the "reset" was based on interests not personalities. 
 
 They also argue that Putin, as a power behind his predecessor's throne, signed off on key aspects of US-Russian relations. 
 
 "In the initial phone calls that President Obama has had with President Putin, the indication that we've given and that the Russians have provided is that (they) want to continue to build on the common ground that we've had," said Ben Rhodes, a US deputy national security advisor. 
 
 Yet Putin, who jealously guards Russia's "great power status" has made no secret of his suspicions of the United States, blaming Washington for organizing anti-government protests in Moscow last year. 
 
 The Russian leader, citing the need to form a cabinet, declined to attend the G8 summit that Obama hosted last month. 
 
 Though US officials denied his no-show was a snub, Putin has since shown up in Beijing, Berlin and Paris, perhaps hinting where his priorities lie. 
 
 Analysts say that when Obama and Putin met in 2009, the then Russian prime minister delivered a tirade against Washington. 
 
 So the tone of their interactions before reporters Monday will be closely watched. 
 
 As well as taking heat from Romney, Obama is also under pressure from Congress, after asking lawmakers to lift a Cold War measure limiting Russia's trade privileges known as the Jackson Vanik waiver, as Moscow enters the World Trade Organization. 
 
 Instead, rebellious lawmakers are pushing legislation that would sanction some Russian officials over the death in jail of Sergei Magnitsky, which Moscow has branded anti-Russian. 
 
 Copyright © 2013 AFP. All rights reserved. More » ||||| LOS CABOS, Mexico — President Barack Obama arrived at the G-20 summit that starts Monday in Mexico with a packed schedule. 
 
 While the eurozone’s troubles could pose one of the biggest threats to his reelection effort, Obama is close to powerless and can do little in Los Cabos beyond continuing to urge his fellow leaders to act decisively to manage debt and promote growth on their continent. 
 
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 Sunday’s Greek elections resulted in what’s seen as the best possible outcome for Obama — the pro-eurozone coalition expected to form lets him head into the meeting with more stability as he aims to get a clear outline of a longer-term plan for the future of the European Union. 
 
 Still, with Republican candidate Mitt Romney attacking Obama for not doing enough about the economy, the president will be under pressure to make all that talk look like it’s accomplishing something. 
 
 A health care decision could arrive from the Supreme Court on Monday and scramble everything for the president, but even without that, the future of the eurozone and the global economy won’t be all that’s on Obama’s agenda in Los Cabos. Here are POLITICO’s key things to watch as Obama meets with leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Germany’s Angela Merkel and China’s Hu Jintao, on a trip the administration hopes won’t be overshadowed by distraction: a gaffe, a live mic picking up a private conversation or another scandal from his security detail. 
 
 Pressing Europe for more 
 
 Obama tried to discuss the European crisis at the G-8 summit at Camp David last month and at a press conference last week full of trans-Atlantic advice that got drowned out by his comment that “the private sector is doing fine.” 
 
 Obama wants to see efforts from Europe stabilize the financial system and encourage growth while leaving management of debt to the longer term. While it’s a position that gets the support of many world leaders, it is getting some domestic flak, namely from Glenn Hubbard, a Columbia University economist who is advising Romney’s campaign. “These recommendations are not only unwise; they also reveal ignorance of the causes of the crisis and of a growth trend in the future,” Hubbard said in an op-ed published in a German business magazine, recommending austerity over Obama’s preferred stimulus. 
 
 The president is “intensely interested” in making sure that Europe’s “contagion doesn’t spread,” said Matthew Goodman, a former Obama administration official who was involved in developing economic policy for major summits. For good reason: The U.S. economy is in a precarious position that easily could be hurt by waning confidence and soft demand from the continent.
– President Obama will meet with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Mexico today, in what promises to be a contentious tête-à-tête, the AFP reports. It will be Obama's first meeting with Putin since his re-ascendance to Russia's presidency, and the leaders don't seem nearly as simpatico as Obama and Dmitry Medvedev were; Obama waited days to congratulate Putin on his election victory, Politico points out, and Putin snubbed the G8 conference. There are substantive policy disputes as well, particularly over Syria. Greece is widely expected to dominate discussion at the summit. Leaders were generally upbeat in the wake of Greece's vote, but the issue is still contentious. David Cameron today urged Greece's parties to "get on with it and help form a government" to avoid a eurozone exit, the Telegraph reports. Obama will try to convince European leaders to do more to encourage growth. He will also have a meeting with Hu Jintao, at which Syria is expected to be a major topic of conversation, and with Felipe Calderon—the final such meeting before Mexico's presidential election.