{"id":25725,"date":"2022-09-16T07:43:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25725"},"modified":"2022-09-16T07:43:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:43:47","slug":"biden-to-meet-ramaphosa-for-talks-on-russia-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/16\/biden-to-meet-ramaphosa-for-talks-on-russia-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to meet Ramaphosa for talks on Russia and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president, <strong>Joe Biden, <\/strong>will meet South African leader <strong>Cyril Ramaphosa<\/strong>at the White House on Friday <strong>for<\/strong> <strong>talks that will include Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine<\/strong>, climate issues, trade and more, Associated Press reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quoted\"><p>Ramaphosa is among African leaders who have maintained a neutral stance in the aftermath of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, with South Africa abstaining from a UN vote condemning Russia\u2019s actions and calling for a mediated settlement.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s international relations minister, Naledi Pandor, said Ramaphosa would emphasise the need for dialogue to find an end to the conflict during his meeting with Biden and in separate talks with vice-president Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>The White House meeting comes after the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, visited South Africa last month, where he said the Biden administration sees Africa\u2019s 54 nations as \u201cequal partners\u201d in tackling global problems.<\/p>\n<p>But the administration has been disappointed that South Africa and much of the continent have declined to follow the US in condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More to follow\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president, Joe Biden, will meet South African leader Cyril Ramaphosaat the White House on Friday for talks that will include Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, climate issues, trade and more, Associated Press reports. Ramaphosa is among African leaders who have maintained a neutral stance in the aftermath of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, with South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1648,4899,12729,8311,5178,6044,3862,10767,10391,11491,10954,5252,2471,11398,3114,9833,12085,3805,1748,1013,3457,5217,244,1213,10329,5180,5465,6348,11331,5251,6571,2982,3954,594],"class_list":["post-25725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-africa","tag-african","tag-african-leaders","tag-antony-blinken","tag-biden","tag-blinken","tag-climate-change","tag-conflict","tag-declined","tag-harris","tag-international","tag-invasion","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala","tag-kamala-harris","tag-meeting","tag-nations","tag-president","tag-president-of-south-africa-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-ramaphosa","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-south-africa","tag-south-african","tag-trade","tag-ukraine","tag-un","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-war","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}