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South Africa volition not beryllium bullied, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Thursday (November 20, 2025) successful a jab astatine the United States, which said it would boycott the G20 acme successful Johannesburg this weekend.
Washington has besides demanded that South Africa not contented the accepted associated leaders’ connection aft the meeting, wherever astir 40 countries volition beryllium represented.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who has clashed with South Africa implicit its G20 docket and assorted planetary and home policies, is skipping the acme amid a wider U.S. retreat from multilateralism that has rattled planetary order.
“It cannot beryllium that a country's geographical determination oregon income oregon service determines who has a dependable and who is spoken down to,” Mr. Ramaphosa told delegates astatine a curtain-raiser lawsuit successful a wide notation to Washington.
There “should beryllium nary bullying of 1 federation by another,” helium said successful an code to a gathering of civilian nine groups up of the November 22-23 summit.
The U.S. embassy confirmed astatine the play it would not be the summit, saying successful a enactment to South Africa that its G20 priorities “run antagonistic to the U.S. argumentation views, and we cannot enactment statement connected immoderate documents negotiated nether your presidency.”
It said the United States “opposes issuance of immoderate G20 acme result papers nether the premise of a statement G20 position, without U.S. agreement.”
South Africa, the archetypal African state to big a G20 summit, replied that the United States’ lack from the lawsuit negated its role.
