Cape Town, South Africa — Senior European Union officials were in South Africa for a summit with President Cyril Ramposa on Thursday, focused on trade and diplomatic relations, as both feel the impact of foreign policy of Trump administration conflict.
European Commission Chairman Ursula von Der Leyen and European Council Chairman Antonio Costa will meet Ramposa at the European Union-South Africa summit before 2018 at the European Union-South Africa Summit.
The focus of the 27-Nation block will be converted into its largest trading partner in the sub-Sahara Africa after the European Union announced a retaliation against Washington in response to the new duties of US President Donald Trump on steel and aluminum.
The summit in South Africa “will detect a new path for economic, trade and investment cooperation, as well as any challenge and trade bottleneck,” said the European Council.
South Africa has been excluded by the Trump administration for sanctions on some domestic and foreign policies that the US leader has put as anti -American leader.
Trump issued an executive order last month, alleging human rights violations against a white minority group in the country, and accusing the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and Iran of violating human rights to support some “bad actors” in the world, like Hamas and Iran, cutting all American funding.
The visit of Von Der Leyen will re -linked the European Union’s support for the presidency of South Africa of 20 major rich and developed countries this year, another area where the US has criticized South Africa, boycotting some early G20 meetings.
South Africa hopes to use the group’s own leadership to progress on help for poor countries, especially to reduce the impact of climate change on debt relief and more financing.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio dismissed some of those priorities for the G20 and left a group meeting of a group of foreign ministers in South Africa last month. He also said that he would not attend the main G20 summit in Johannesburg in November, showing that the US would pay little attention to the efforts of international cooperation through the block, including 19 of the world’s major economies, the European Union and the African Union.
Rubio is participating in a conversation with other top diplomats of a seven industrial democracy group in Canada starting on Thursday.
The European Union stated that von Der Leyen would use a meeting in South Africa to announce a new investment package in South Africa, which uses public and private grants and loans to finance green energy projects in South Africa, improves transport infrastructure such as railways and ports, and strengthens its vaccine production capacity.
The US withdrew from an agreement this month, which gave money to South Africa and two other developing countries to help them infection in energy sources. The European Union has also given money for that only energy transition participation and said it is still committed to the program.
“My Message: Europe gives importance to its partnership with South Africa,” Von Der Leyen said in a statement before the meeting with Ramposa.
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