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G20 World Leaders
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola has reaffirmed South Africa’s position that it will not attend the G20 Summit next year without an invitation from the United States.
Lamola also added that the country will not boycott the summit if it’s excluded from participating.
Washington has stated that Pretoria will not be invited to participate in next year’s G20 Summit in Florida, over unsubstantiated claims of a genocide being committed against Afrikaners.
Lamola says the majority of G20 members have committed to continuing discussions with Washington on Pretoria’s participation in the summit.
“The whole of this year, it has been decisions taken in Washington on a unilateral basis with regard to trade and so forth, and also the US withdrawing from a variety of multilateral platforms. So, if we give them a boycott, we will be further giving them the opportunity to be working alone. So they must be engaged. Those countries, and we are glad that most of them are saying we are ready, we will go and engage with Washington on this issue and all issues affecting the globe.”
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