Trump had already said he wouldn’t attend the summit, but the boycott would pull the US from the conference entirely.

In an awkward moment during a speech in Miami on Wednesday, November 5, Donald Trump mixed up South America and South Africa. During a rant about communism, the president, 79, expressed sympathy for Miami citizens for dealing with an influx of Cuban immigrants who fled to the city to escape the communist Castro regime — but he confused South America with South Africa,

Trump's comments come days after Finnish President Alexander Stubb suggested a possible meeting between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S. at the summit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will be represented at this month's G20 summit of major industrial and emerging economies in South Africa by Maxim Oreshkin, the deputy chief of staff of the presidential office.

On Tuesday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa received the G20 Extraordinary Committee Report on Global Inequality from Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, and four other leading global experts of the committee at a ceremony in Cape Town.