US EditionDonald Trump Insists South Africa Should Not Be in G20, Says He Will Skip Joburg Summit
Trump cites alleged human rights abuses and land seizures against Afrikaners as reasons to exclude South Africa from G20, declining to attend the Johannesburg summit.
- On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he will not attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg, arguing South Africa should no longer be part of the group.
- Donald Trump has accused South Africa of human rights abuses against ethnic minority Afrikaners and land seizures, but South Africa called these claims `factually incorrect`.
- Trump told reporters it shouldn't be there about the summit location and said the U.S. will be represented at the G20 by Vice President JD Vance.
- The Kremlin said certain "conditions" must be met before trilateral talks and Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is not expected to attend, with Maksim Oreshkin, Putin's deputy chief of staff, attending instead.
- Attempts to organize in-person talks have faltered, as a planned Budapest meeting between Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, and Donald Trump, U.S. President, was scrapped and they met only once on Aug. 15.
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Trump says he won't attend G20 Summit in South Africa later this month, here's why
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will not attend the G20 Summit scheduled to be held in South Africa later this month. “I am not going. We have a G20 meeting in South Africa. South Africa shouldn't even be in the Gs any more because what's happened there is bad. I told them I'm not going. I'm not going to represent our country there. It shouldn't be there,” Trump said at the America Business Forum in Miami on Wednesday. South Afric…
US President Donald Trump will not attend the G20 summit in South Africa, which he says is a "communist tyranny" and has no place in the organization.
Miami, Nov. 5 (EFE).- U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed this Wednesday that he will not go to the G20 Summit on November 22 in South Africa, questioning the permanence of this country in the group. “I will not go. We have a G20 meeting in South Africa. South Africa should not even be in the ‘G’ anymore because what happened there is bad. I will not go. I said: I will not go. I will not represent our country there. It should not be there,” s…
'I'm not going to represent our country there' — Trump to skip G20 summit, dashing hopes of brokering meeting between Zelensky, Putin
Trump's comments come days after Finnish President Alexander Stubb suggested a possible meeting between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S. at the summit.
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