Karoline Leavitt, Sprecherin des Weißen Hauses

The USA will stay away from the G20 summit as announced

As announced, the USA will not send government representatives to the G20 summit in South Africa this weekend. “The United States is not participating in official discussions at the G20 summit in South Africa,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in Washington on Thursday. She thereby denied statements by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa about an alleged change of heart in Washington.

Ramaphosa’s comments were not appreciated by US President Donald Trump or his team, Leavitt emphasized. The South African head of state had spoken of a message from the USA that the Trump administration wanted to “participate in the summit in some way”. South Africa currently holds the G20 presidency and will host the summit in Johannesburg on Saturday and Sunday.



Trump canceled US participation earlier this month. He justified the move with alleged human rights violations in South Africa. Trump had accused the former apartheid state of a “genocide” against whites, but South Africa’s government rejects this. After Trump’s cancellation, Argentine ally President Javier Milei also said he would not be traveling to Johannesburg.

The G20 group of the most important industrialized and emerging countries consists of 19 states as well as the EU and the African Union. Its members account for 85 percent of global economic output. South Africa has made the fight against economic inequality the central theme of its presidency.

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