{"id":28276,"date":"2025-11-21T03:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28276"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:04:04","slug":"us-not-taking-part-in-g20-talks-in-s-africa-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28276","title":{"rendered":"US not taking part in G20 talks in S Africa: White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The United States is not taking part in this weekend\u2019s G20 summit in Johannesburg, the White House said Thursday, denying comments from South Africa\u2019s President Cyril Ramaphosa who had said Washington wanted to participate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is not participating in official talks at the G20 in South Africa,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the South African president running his mouth a little bit against the United States and the president of the United States earlier today, and that language is not appreciated by the president or his team,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In a note to the government on Saturday, the US embassy repeated that it would not attend the summit, saying South Africa\u2019s G20 priorities \u201crun counter to the US policy views and we cannot support consensus on any documents negotiated under your presidency\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said earlier Thursday that South Africa would not be bullied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt cannot be that a country\u2019s geographical location or income or army determines who has a voice and who is spoken down to,\u201d he told delegates at a G20 curtain-raiser event.<br \/>\nThere \u201cshould be no bullying of one nation by another\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Positive sign\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said the apparent change of heart was \u201ca positive sign\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll countries are here, and the United States, the biggest economy in the world, needs to be here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa chose \u201cSolidarity, Equality, Sustainability\u201d as the theme of its presidency of the G20, which comprises 19 countries and two regional bodies, the European Union and the African Union.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is not taking part in this weekend\u2019s G20 summit in Johannesburg, the White House said Thursday, denying comments from South Africa\u2019s President Cyril Ramaphosa who had said Washington wanted to participate. \u201cThe United States is not participating in official talks at the G20 in South Africa,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}