South Africa's government is trying to clear hurdles for Vladimir Putin to attend a BRICS leaders' summit, despite an international warrant for his arrest.
, so he could potentially face arrest if he sets foot in South Africa, which is an ICC signatory country.
Bapela said the government would also seek a specific waiver from the ICC to ensure it would not have to arrest Putin if he did show up in August. As the debate over Putin's possible visit intensified, Ramaphosa said he would send four of his senior government ministers, including Pandor, to G7 countries as envoys to explain South Africa's commitment to a"non-aligned" position on Russia's war in Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria, South Africa, January 23, 2023.The BRICS meetings come on the heels of a late-May summit of the Group of Seven leaders in Japan. That meeting was marked by the U.S. and the world's other biggest economies hitting Russia with a raft of new sanctions over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and discussion of countering an increasingly assertive China.
"This is not a matter of bullying, as I often hear in this context. It's not a matter of threatening," Brigety said."This is how any relationship works."Regarding the prospect of Putin visiting South Africa in August and authorities declining to place him under arrest under its obligations as an ICC signatory nation, Brigety said the U.S.
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