The United States has included Poland instead of South Africa in the list of participants for the next Group of Twenty (G20) summit, to be held in Miami in December 2026.
Modern.az reports that "Bloomberg" has disseminated information about this.
According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the US is inviting Poland to participate in the G20 summit instead of South Africa.
According to the publication, American officials, highly valuing their partnership with Warsaw, noted successful cooperation since the country's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact in 1989. Rubio emphasized that “the country once behind the Iron Curtain has now become one of the world's largest economies and will take its rightful place in the G20.”
It is noted that Poland has long sought to join the G20. In September this year, US President Donald Trump invited Polish President Karol Navroçki to the summit “in an unspecified form.” The decision to replace South Africa with Poland was made against the backdrop of Washington's criticism of Pretoria for violating the rights of white people.
On November 26, Trump instructed that South Africa not be invited to the Miami summit. He stated that after the previous G20 summit held in South Africa, the country's authorities refused to hand over presidential powers to a high-ranking US official attending the closing ceremony. The President also noted that human rights violations against the descendants of European colonists continue in South Africa.
