CAPE TOWN -- The Group of 20 (G20) Finance Track meetings kicked off Monday in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, with discussions focusing on the challenges and constraints to growth in developing countries, particularly in African countries.
The absence of Secretary of State Marco Rubio hung over the year’s first high-level meeting of the world’s largest economies, with diplomats fretting over turbulent times.
The two day meeting consists of finance ministers and central bank governors and takes place from 26-27 of February.
Despite the warm welcome foreign dignitaries received at the meeting in Johannesburg, hosted by current G20 president South Africa, tensions were apparent before the event even got underway.