JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s foreign minister Ronald Lamola told Reuters on Monday that the United States had not responded to attempts to “formally engage” after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting off aid to South Africa.
Trump cut U.S. financial assistance to the country this month, citing disapproval of its land reform policy and of its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
South Africa will host the G20 meeting of foreign ministers later this week in Johannesburg, which U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is not attending after he expressed disapproval of South Africa’s G20 theme “Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability”.
(Reporting by Nellie Peyton and Tim Cocks; Writing by Tannur Anders and Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Alexander Winning)
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