JOHANNESBURG - President Cyril Ramaphosa has opened the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting.
Officials from G20 member nations are meeting at the Nasrec Expo centre in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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Leaders are discussing the fast-changing geopolitical landscape.
It comes as President Donald Trump makes sweeping changes to US foreign policy.
He's also embarked on an attack on South Africa, leading US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to boycott the meeting.
International relations expert, Brooks Spector discussed the absence of the US Secretary of State with eNCA, saying, "This was the wrong thing to do, let's be blunt about it. You don't always go to a meeting like this because everybody agrees with everybody else."
"You go to make your points; you go to have as robust [a] discussion as possible and if you can, you try to move the ball a little bit more towards your positions than it was before."
"To simply say, I'm going to sit home and sit on my hands is less than useful, it's less than optimal and it's kind of a shot yourself in the foot moment," he said.