JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that the Leaders’ Declaration from this weekend’s Group of 20 summit reflected a “renewed commitment to multilateral cooperation”.
Ramaphosa, host of the Johannesburg summit, pushed through the declaration addressing global challenges like the climate crisis despite objections from the United States, which boycotted the event.
Addressing the summit’s closing ceremony, Ramaphosa said the declaration showed that world leaders’ “shared goals outweigh our differences”.
U.S. President Donald Trump boycotted the November 22-23 summit because of allegations – which have been widely debunked – that the host country’s Black majority government persecutes its white minority.
Trump had also rejected South Africa’s agenda of promoting solidarity and helping developing nations adapt to worsening weather disasters, transition to clean energy and cut their excessive debt costs.
(Reporting by Sfundo Parakozov;Writing by Alexander Winning;Editing by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo)
