President Cyril Ramaphosa said that if the President of the United States, Donald Trump, does not want to come to the G20 Leaders Summit it is “their loss”.
Wednesday, 12 November, President Ramaphosa added that: “the United States needs to think again whether boycott politics actually works, because in my experience it doesn’t work.”
President Trump announced on social media last week that no US government official is going to attend the G20, while citing his widely rejected claims on South Africa.
Ramaphosa said: “It is unfortunate that the United Stated decided not to attend the G20.”
He continued to say: “The United States by not being at the G20, one must never think that we are not going to go on with the G20. The G20 will go on, all other heads of state will be here. In the end we will take fundamental decisions and their absence is their loss.”
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