During a press conference in Germany this Monday, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) reported that he spoke with the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, and told him that the United States does not have the right to prevent a founding member of the G20 from participating in the group’s meeting.
“I told Ramaphosa that he should go to the G20 as a member. If I were him, I would go, not as a guest, but as a founding member of the G20,” declared the president.
American President Donald Trump announced in November last year that the United States would stop sending subsidies to the country in November this year.
The president said on the social network Truth Social that the US did not participate in the 2025 summit — which took place in Johannesburg — because “the South African government refuses to recognize or address the “horrendous human rights abuses suffered by Afrikaners and other descendants of Dutch, French and German settlers.”
