South Africa to host US-Africa trade summit despite Russia spat

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South Africa will host a U.S.-Africa trade summit in November despite an earlier call by U.S. lawmakers for the event to be moved over what they said was the country's deepening military relationship with Russia.

South Africa's economic hub, Johannesburg, will host the U.S.-sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum from Nov. 2 to 4, U.S. and South African officials said in a joint statement on Wednesday.

"As President Biden has said, the future is Africa," United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in the statement. Tai said she looked forward to visiting South Africa to "discuss opportunities to make AGOA more transformative". Despite Pretoria's declared neutrality, perceived close ties between Russia and South Africa, an important U.S. trading partner in Africa, have ruffled feathers Washington., leading members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate asked the Biden administration to choose another location for the U.S.-Africa trade meeting.

In the end, Putin, who is wanted under an International Criminal Court warrant on charges of war crimes in Ukraine, did not travel to the September BRICS summit. And a South African investigation into the purported arms delivery stated that the accusation was unfounded.

 

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