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US President Donald Trump indicated earlier this week that South Africa would not be invited to G20 meetings next year due to tensions in bilateral relations.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that his country would remain fully engaged in G20 activities, despite recent tensions with the United States, which will host next year’s G20 meetings.
Ramaphosa announced in a televised address to the nation after South Africa chaired the G20 leaders’ summit a week earlier, which Washington boycotted. US President Donald Trump indicated earlier this week that South Africa would not be invited to G20 meetings next year due to tensions in bilateral relations.
Ramaphosa said that Trump repeated untrue statements about genocide against Afrikaners and the confiscation of land from white people in our country. He clarified that that South Africa is one of the founding members of the G20, and South Africa is therefore a member of the G20 in its own name and right.
The South African president said that the United States’ absence from this year’s leaders’ summit was due to misinformation and called it “regrettable.” Mr. Trump, for his part, had cited allegations of “white genocide” in the African nation to justify boycotting the summit.
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The South African head of state confirmed that South Africa transferred the G20 presidency to the United States earlier this week and emphasized the importance of its relations with Washington while remaining committed to dialogue. The United States assumed the rotating G20 presidency officially on December 1.
