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Leaders pose for a family photo on the first day of the G20 Leaders’ Summit at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The G20 Leaders’ Summit will end later on Sunday, with South Africa unlikely to formally hand over the presidency to the United States.
This follows US President Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to boycott the two-day meeting of leading and emerging economies.
Washington snubbed the summit, citing its disagreement with the agenda and an unfounded allegation of white genocide in South Africa.
Despite this, G20 leaders adopted the Summit Declaration without the input of the US.
The G20 leaders broke with tradition and adopted a declaration at the start of their summit on Saturday, not at the end as expected.
Pretoria maintains it would be an insult for President Cyril Ramaphosa to hand over the G20 Presidency to a junior US official, raising suspicion that there might be no formal handover.
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