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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend the Group of Twenty (G20) Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Johannesburg on 20-21 February. He announced this on social media platform X on Thursday, 6 February.
“I will not be attending the G20 meeting in Johannesburg. South Africa is doing some very bad things – expropriating private property and using the G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equity and sustainability’, or in other words DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – ed.), and to fight climate change,” Rubio wrote.
The US Secretary of State stressed that his job is to “advance America’s national interests, not to spend taxpayer money on pandering to anti-Americanism”.
This year, the G20 is chaired by South Africa, which has chosen Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability as its motto.
The G20 leaders’ summit is due to take place in Johannesburg in November, after which the US will take over the presidency of the group.
Using Viktor Medvedchuk’s propaganda article as an example, they concluded that Russia refuses to recognise Ukraine’s sovereignty and justifies its aggression with myths about “historical lands”.
