Syria crisis: No clear winner in Russia-US G20 duel

Both sides have claimed victory in this G20 gladiatorial contest over Syria, but identifying who is on which team is not straightforward.
So who backed Russia and who backed the United States?
According to President Vladimir Putin, the outcome was not a 50/50 split, but a balance of opinion in Russia's favour.
He claimed that, at the G20 dinner on Syria, only four countries - France, Turkey, Canada and Saudi Arabia (plus a British prime ministerrebuffed by his own parliament) - had backed America.
Whereas siding with Russia in rejecting military strikes on Syria, he says, were seven nations: China, India, Indonesia, Argentina and Brazil, as well as South Africa and Italy.
The statement was carefully crafted to omit the controversial crux of the American plan: punitive airstrikes on Syria, to be led by the US, quite possibly without UN backing
Yet not all the Russian president's views on Syria were endorsed by other G20 leaders.
Who else in St Petersburg publicly declared, as he did, that Syria's"so-called chemical weapons attack" was in fact "a provocation staged byrebels, in hope of winning extra backing from their foreign backers"?
In making that categorical claim, the Russian leader left little room for compromise and ended up looking, perhaps, somewhat isolated.
Shifting sands
Meanwhile, President Barack Obamaalso declared he had enjoyed support from a majority of G20 participants, who were"comfortable" with American claims.
Eleven countries did indeed endorse a joint statementcirculated by the White House
*.to condemn the Syrian chemical weapons attack as a grave violation of the world's rules
*.to agree that the evidence pointed to Syrian governmentculpability
*.to call for a strong international response.