Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, called US President Donald Trump’s statement that South Africa will not be asked to participate in the G20 conference in Florida next year “regrettable. Trump claimed on social media that during last week’s summit in Johannesburg, South Africa had refused to give the G20 presidency to a representative of the US embassy.
As a result, at my request, South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G20, which will take place in Miami, Florida, next year. Members of the G20, a conference of the largest economies in the world, may be excluded due to visa limitations but do not require an invitation.
Despite their efforts, the top political leadership in South Africa “should by now accept” that “there won’t be a reset of the relationship” between the two nations, according to presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya.
He told the BBC, “If visas are denied, well, then we will have to move on and look beyond the G20 in the US,” when asked how they would proceed. He stated that they were concentrated on collaborating with other G20 members to maintain the momentum of the topics discussed during the Johannesburg summit.
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