White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt on Thursday said that the US will not participate in the official talks at the Group of 20 summit in South Africa and that representative from the US Embassy in South Africa will attend the formal handover ceremony at the end of this weekend’s G20 summit in Johannesburg.

“The United States is not participating in official talks at the G20 in South Africa. I saw the South African President running his mouth a little bit against the United States and @POTUS… and that language is not appreciated by @POTUS and his team," Leavitt said.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa at an event said that the United States had indicated that it had a “change of mind" over its boycott at the “11th hour."

“Boycott politics does not work. It is better to be ins

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