South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa says that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s decision to skip the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg is „not a boycott“. Rubio announced earlier this month he would not attend the talks among top diplomats from the Group of 20, the world’s largest economies, because of the host government’s „anti-American“ agenda. „This can be ascribed to a whole number of reasons which he has stated, which we note. And we have resolved that we will, in the diplomatic process, be able to have those matters discussed, to have those matters dealt with, so that we are able to iron out wrinkles that may have appeared in our relationship,“ Ramaphosa tells a press conference after he opened the two-day meeting attended by the foreign ministers of G20 countries including Russia, China and India. SOUNDBITE