Lamola to persuade leaders adopt leadership declaration at G20


International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Ronald Lamola says South Africa will persuade G20 leaders who will be present to adopt leaders declaration without the US presence.

He says the summit will forge ahead without other key leaders such as Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.

Lamola, who was addressing the media in Nasrec, Johannesburg, says they will mark the US as absent from the summit because they were invited.

“In their absence, the countries that are present must take a decision and that is what currently unfolding. The Sherpas are negotiating the leader’s declaration. But we are forging ahead to persuade the countries that are present to adopt the leader’s declaration,” says Lamola.

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