Following Russia's refusal to turn over Snowden to the United States after his release of secret documents concerning secret surveillance programs conducted by the U.S., President Obama has cancelled his scheduled meeting with Russia's President Putin that was to be next month.

Although the Snowden Affair had something to do with the cancellation of the Russian-U.S. Summit scheduled for September, other issues were mentioned as reasons for the cancellation as well. The White House Press Secretary released a statement today, saying, “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 twelve 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.”

The statement also pointed to the Snowden affair as a factor as well. The statement continued, saying, “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.”

President Obama’s participation in the G-20 summit is still scheduled however. That summit takes place on September 5-6.

Obama also expressed his disappointment with Russia over the Snowden affair during an appearance on NBC’s “Tonight Show’ on Tuesday evening, saying it reflected some “underlying challenges” with Russia. The president said there, “even though we don’t have an extradition treaty with them, traditionally we have tried to respect if there’s a law-breaker or an alleged law-breaker in their country, we evaluate it and we try to work with them. They didn’t do that with us.”

The talks between Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will go ahead as planned with their Russian counterparts.