Obama Calls Off Meeting With Vladimir Putin Amid Snowden Tensions

President Barack Obama has backed out of a planned meeting in Moscow with Russia's President Vladimir Putin after Russia granted temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a written statement that after "careful review," the administration ultimately decided that "there is not enough recent progress in our bilateral agenda with Russia to hold a U.S.-Russia Summit in early September."

"However, given our lack of progress on issues such as missile defense and arms control, trade and commercial relations, global security issues, and human rights and civil society in the last 12 months, we have informed the Russian government that we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda," Carney said."Russia's disappointing decision to grant Edward Snowden temporary asylum was also a factor that we considered in assessing the current state of our bilateral relationship."

Obama will still be attending the Group of 20 economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the fall, but a top White House official said the president has no plans to speak to Putin one-on-one. Instead of seeing Putin in Moscow, Obama will add a stop in Sweden to his September travel itinerary.

Edward Snowden sat in a transit zone of the Moscow airport for a month until he was granted temporary asylum from the country. The NSA leaker has been granted asylum for one year, and his paperwork was processed by Russia's Federal Migration Service in record time -- the paperwork took two weeks, as opposed to the usual wait of two to three months.