JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Group of 20 nations will make a joint declaration at the end of their summit in Johannesburg this weekend despite warnings against that from the United States, South Africa’s president said Thursday.

He said the summit host country will “not be bullied” by pressure from the Trump administration to water down any final decisions.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters that the first G20 summit in Africa was moving forward without the U.S., which is boycotting the two-day meeting of world leaders that opens Saturday over Trump’s claims that Ramaphosa’s government is violently persecuting a white minority.

A South African G20 ambassador said this week that the U.S. had sent diplomatic communication to South Africa advising that that “there should be

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