South Africa’s central bank governor warned that the U.S. move to exclude the country from the Group of 20 next year was placing the international gathering at risk.

South Africa has been a member of the bloc since its formation in 1999 and “I cannot think of one country that got told that they cannot come to G-20,” not even sanctioned Russia, Lesetja Kganyago said at a media lunch in Johannesburg on Friday.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced this week that he won’t invite South Africa — this year’s G20 president — to attend next year’s summit in Miami, which the U.S. will lead when it assumes the group’s presidency on Dec. 1.

Kganyago said that if South Africa is dropped in 2026, it would set a damaging precedent that could see other countries omitted in the future. “The G20 does no

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