President Cyril Ramaphosa stated on Wednesday that the United States boycott of the G20 summit, scheduled to take place in South Africa later this month, would not prevent the meeting of the world’s leading economies from proceeding as planned.

Ramaphosa told reporters that the summit would still go ahead, despite the absence of the US delegation.

Specifically, Ramaphosa stated, “We will take fundamental decisions and their absence is their loss,” further adding that Washington was absconding “the very important role that they should be playing as the biggest economy in the world”.