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The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, refuses to attend the group of 20 (G-20) Summit in Johannesburg this year, in protest of the South African government Draft Conference Law of Controversy Lands.
The bill, which was signed last week, allows the expropriated South African authorities of land “for public purposes or in public interest,” promising “fair and equitable compensation” to those affected by the bill. Although most South African citizens are black, most owners are white, and this disparity has been a topic in South Africa for years.
The law also allows the expropriation of land without compensation, but only in circumstances in which it is “fair and equitable and in public interest.”
The G-20 Summit is scheduled to begin on November 22, but in a publication on social networks on Wednesday, Rubio definitely wrote that “no” will be there.
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Marco Rubio refuses to go to South Africa for the G-20. (Istock / Getty)
“South Africa is doing very bad things,” said Rubio’s publication. “Expropriation of private property. Use of G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality and sustainability'”.
“In other words: Dei and Climate Change,” added the Republican. “My work is to advance in the national interests of the United States, not waste taxpayers money or encode anti -Americanism.”
President Donald Trump‘s The administration has been vocally critical of the land seizure bill. In a social position of truth, Trump described the situation as a “massive human rights violation, at least.”
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The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, addresses a plane on the way to El Salvador at the Panama Pacific International Airport in Panama City on Monday. Rubio is in Panama on an official two -day visit. (Mark Schiefelbein/Pool AP/AFP through Getty Images)
“It is a bad situation that the radical media of the left do not want to mention so much,” Trump wrote in a publication. “The United States will not defend it, we will act. In addition, I will cut all future funds to South Africa until a complete investigation of this situation has been completed!”
The South African government has He responded coldly to the accusations of the Trump administration, denying that any unfair confiscation has occurred.
“We hope to participate with the Trump administration about our agrarian reform policy and issues of bilateral interest,” said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in a statement. “We are sure that of those commitments, we will share a better and common understanding about these matters.”
In an interview with Fox News Digital, South African analyst Frans Cronje proposed that Trump alluded to the continuous murder of farmers in South Africa when he talked about certain kinds of people who were treated “very bad.” The attacks have been perpetuated against black and black farmers.
The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, left, and President Donald Trump, who has criticized the new land laws of the country. (EVAN VUCCI/AP/RAJESH Jantilal/AFP through Getty Images)
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“President Trump’s recent comments on land seizures in South Africa cannot divorce their previous comments on violent attacks aimed at farmers in the country,” said Chronje. “While these comments have often been ruled out as false, the latest South African data suggest that commercial farmers in the country are six times more likely to be violently attacked in their homes than is the case of the general population.”
Paul Tisley of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
