Reference News Network, November 23 report - According to Deutsche Presse-Agentur, on November 22, a spokesperson for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said at the G20 Summit that South Africa will not symbolically hand over the G20 rotating presidency to the United States on November 23.
According to tradition, the outgoing host country formally hands over the rotating presidency to the next one at the end of the summit. The next rotating presidency is the United States. However, Washington is boycotting the first G20 summit held on African soil.
US President Donald Trump accused South Africa of discrimination against the white minority, especially the Dutch descendants known as Afrikaners. South Africa denies these allegations, calling them baseless, and human rights experts also consider the accusations unfair.
Due to the boycott, the United States did not participate in any summit discussions.
South African President's spokesperson, Vincent Magwegwe, said that the US had originally planned to send an embassy representative to the summit, who would only attend the handover ceremony on November 23.
He said that this was unacceptable for South Africa. "It violates diplomatic etiquette. This situation has never happened before and will never happen for the first time in South Africa," he said.
South Africa is currently hosting this two-day meeting in Johannesburg. The G20 consists of 19 countries as well as the EU and the African Union. The next year's summit is planned to be held in Miami. (Translated by Feng Xue)
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