After US ban
\nJOHANNESBURG
\nSouth Africa said Thursday it was prepared to wait out next year\u2019s G20 after being barred by the United States and did not expect other countries to lobby for its inclusion. The United States this month took over the year-long presidency of the group of leading economies after largely boycotting South Africa\u2019s tenure, including the November summit, in an escalation of its attacks on Pretoria.
\nPresident Donald Trump said on social media late November that South Africa would not be invited to the summit in Miami, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeated in comments Wednesday.
\n\u201cWe are yet to receive it in writing and we will deal with that when it comes,\u201d President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters on Thursday.
\nSouth Africa was \u201cfully fledged member of the G20\u201d and its presidency had been internationally described as successful, he said.
\nPresidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya said earlier that South Africa was prepared to sit out the forum\u2019s 2026 series and resume participation when the G20 is handed to Britain in a year\u2019s time.
\n\u201cAbout this time next year, the UK will be taking over the G20 Presidency,\u201d Magwenya said on social media.
\n\u201cWe will be able to engage meaningfully and substantively over what really matters to the rest of the world. For now, we will take a commercial break until we resume normal programming,\u201d he said.
\n\u2018Spirit of G20\u2019
\nThe Johannesburg summit, the first in Africa, was attended by a host of world leaders, including from countries not in the G20, but boycotted by Trump.
\nRubio said in a newsletter that South Africa\u2019s G20 was an exercise in \u201cradical agendas\u201d that ignored US objections.
\nThe \u201cUnited States will not be extending an invitation to the South African government to participate in the G20 during our presidency,\u201d he said.
\nRamaphosa said South Africa would not attempt to mobilize a boycott of the US G20 to object to its exclusion. \u201cEvery country must take its own decisions,\u201d he said.
\nSouth Africa would however want countries to \u201cregister their displeasure with the US in defense of multilateralism and the spirit and purpose of the G20,\u201d his spokesman said in an interview with the Sunday Times Wednesday.
\nThe G20 group of nations includes the world\u2019s top economies as well as the European Union and the African Union regional blocs. It accounts for 85 percent of the world\u2019s GDP and two-thirds of its population.
\nThe Trump administration has lashed out at South Africa over a range of policies, expelling its ambassador in March and imposing 30 percent trade tariffs, which Pretoria is still seeking to overturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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