President Cyril Ramaphosa launched SA’s G20 presidency in Cape Town on Tuesday. [Picture: Picture: Lindsay Dentlinger/EWN]
South Africa will support Nigeria’s bid to join the Group of 20 (G20), President Cyril Ramaphosa has said. He launched the country’s presidency of the intergovernmental forum on Tuesday.
“Nigeria will be keenly supported by us,” he said, as the country prepares to host the group’s first summit on African soil next year. “We have been a lone member of G20. We shall need to raise the voice of Africa which had been neglected.”
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu reportedly requested South Africa’s backing at a bi-national commission between the two countries yesterday.
Meanwhile, Ramaphosa said the world faced challenges with “common causes” but consequences were “unevenly distributed”. This, he said, would need to be rectified through collaboration.
“Working together with G20 members and building partnerships that are essential to resolving these problems, South Africa will seek to harness global commitment and capabilities to confront the challenges that the world faces,” he said.
