State Secretary Marco Rubio refuses to attend the 20 group (G-20) TOP in Johannesburg this year, in protest from the South African government Controversial Letsinvalreskin.
The bill, which was signed last week, allows the South African authorities to expropriate land “for a public goal or in the public interest”, “only fair and fair compensation” for those who are made by the bill. Although the majority of the South African citizens are black, most landowners are white -and this inequality has been a subject in South Africa for years.
The law also makes expropriation of land possible without compensation, but only in circumstances in which it is “just and fair and in the public interest”.
The G-20 summit is planned to start on November 22 in a social media post on Wednesday, Rubio wrote definitively that he will be “not there”.
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Marco Rubio refuses to go to South Africa for G-20. (Istock / Getty)
“South Africa does very bad things,” read Rubios X post. “Propries private ownership. Use G20 to promote” solidarity, equality and sustainability. “
“In other words: dei and climate change,” the Republican added. “My job is to promote the national interests of America, not to waste tax money or to cod anti-Americanism.”
President Donald TrumpS Administration has been vocally critical of the seizure of the country. In a truth of the truth, Trump called the situation a ‘massive violation of human rights, minimal’.
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State Secretary Marco Rubio Boards A plane on his way to El Salvador on Panama Pacifico International Airport in Panama City on Monday. Rubio is in Panama on a two -day official visit. (Mark Schiefelbein/Pool AP/AFP via Getty images)
“It is a bad situation that the radical left media do not want so much,” Trump wrote in a message. “The United States will not be in front of it, we will act. I will also cut all future financing to South Africa until a complete investigation into this situation is complete!”
The South African government has Cool responded According to the accusations of the Trump government, and denies that any unjust seizure has taken place.
“We look forward to dealing with the Trump government about our policy of land reform and issues of bilateral importance,” said the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in a statement. “We are sure that we will share a better and common understanding of these things about these matters”.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, the South African analyst Frans Cronje suggested that Trump referred to the constant murder of farmers in South Africa when he spoke about certain classes of people who were ‘very bad’ treated. The attacks are continued against both white and black farmers.
The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, and President Donald Trump, who has criticized the new country laws of the country. (Evan Vucci/AP/Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty images)
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“President Trump’s recent comments about the seizure of the country in South Africa cannot be separated from his earlier comments about violent attacks aimed at the farmers of the country,” said Cronje. “Although these comments are often rejected, the newest South African data suggest that the commercial farmers of the country are six times more likely to be attacked violently in their homes than is the case for the general population.”
Paul Tisley from Fox News Digital has contributed to this report.
