G-20 Can 'Move On' Without the US, South Africa Says

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00:00Does the absence of America mean consensus will be easier to reach?

00:05I mean, oh, in other words, how relieved are you that the Americans aren't here?

00:12As you're aware, the G20 is a consensus-based organization.

00:17There are negotiations that are ongoing, robust,

00:20and we are hopeful that we will be able to find each other

00:24as the countries that are present to adopt the declaration.

00:28And be able to take the G20 to move forward.

00:34As to whether it will be easy or not,

00:37there is emerging kind of consensus within the group.

00:42But obviously, as you're aware, it's about 19 countries.

00:49It's not easy.

00:50There will always be sticking points that have to be ironed out

00:54during the negotiation process that is unfolding to end tomorrow.

00:57I mean, if you reach an agreement and a declaration,

01:02surely it can't be easy to implement that,

01:04especially when it comes to financing and the global financial infrastructure,

01:08if you have the richest country in the world looking the other way.

01:13Are you worried about that,

01:14that it will be a declaration that's going to go nowhere?

01:16Yeah, obviously, that's a concern.

01:20But as you are aware, other institutions of the UN are already paralyzed

01:27because of this withdrawal of the US in some of the international platforms.

01:33We think that the G20 should send a clear message

01:35that the world can move on with or without the US

01:39and that the implementation will not be easy.

01:43Obviously, it will not be a walk in the park.

01:46But when there is global consensus,

01:48we can be able to find persuasive means to enable the world to function

01:53and also for the US to be put into a line

01:57to be able to work with everyone across the globe

01:59because multilateral platforms is the only way that we can enable the world to function.

02:06It's not a unilateral platform.

02:09And this was identified after the Second World War.

02:12It has saved the world good.

02:14There is no reason now to move away from the key multilateral platforms

02:20that have saved the world.

02:21We are not disappointed.

02:23We believe that whichever country that can attend

02:26and it is represented at the right level,

02:29there is really nothing wrong.

02:31It's the nature of multilateral institutions.

02:33It has never even happened in the G20 itself

02:35that you'll find 100% attendance of heads of states.

02:39For whatever reasons, sometimes they attend,

02:41sometimes they don't attend,

02:42but they ensure that they send a delegation.

02:47The only difference with this one now

02:49is the absence of the US, which has never happened.

02:53But we will mark them absent and continue with the business.

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