Overview
- A U.S. diplomatic note warned it will block any document presented as a consensus declaration without its consent and said any text should be issued solely as a chair's statement.
- The administration says it will not participate in summit preparations or proceedings and will send no official delegation.
- Negotiators report the draft text is only partially agreed, and sources say the meeting could end without a joint declaration or with only a chair's statement, a first for G20 leaders if it occurs.
- South Africa says it will still seek a leaders' declaration to advance Global South priorities but has acknowledged the chair's-statement fallback.
- Sources indicate the U.S. would not recognize any collective declaration adopted in Johannesburg; the summit is scheduled for Nov. 22–23, with Russia represented by Maxim Oreshkin.