U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday he will skip next week's meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 major economies in Cape Town, South Africa ...

His move follows Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s decision to also skip a foreign ministers’ summit in the country ...

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 developed and developing nations gathered in South Africa on ...

“The Trump administration and Scott Bessent are thumbing their noses at ... “That will not make America greater or safer.” The G20 was created in 1999 after the Asian Financial Crisis ...

Bessent's absence follows a boycott of a G20 foreign ministers meeting in South Africa last week by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the Trump administration has been openly critical of the ...

As relations between South Africa and the United States continue on a free-fall, US Treasury Secretary Scott ... that Bessent will be the second top US official to avoid the G20 gatherings because ...

Bessent in the interview declined to provide timing for a Trump-Putin meeting, but confirmed that he would not attend next week's G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in South ...

Bessent's absence follows a boycott of a G20 foreign ministers meeting in South Africa last week by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the Trump administration has been openly critical of the ...

MIAMI/BERLIN (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on ... One of the sources told Reuters that G20 member countries had been informed of Bessent's decision not to attend.