The South African government has said it will extend its Diplomatic Immunity and Privileges Act to all international officials who plan to attend an August summit in the country.
As a signatory to the ICC, South Africa may be obliged to arrest Putin if he sets foot in the country, but its government appears to be looking for a way around that obligation.Senior government officials tell CBS News that Putin's possible attendance at the summit of the BRICS block of developing nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — has been a topic of discussion at the"highest levels" in South Africa since the arrest warrant was issued.
That wording suggests Putin could only be arrested in South Africa if Russia agreed to waive Putin's immunity from prosecution, granted by the move taken on Tuesday, which it obviously wouldn't do. "Of course, we count as a bare minimum on partner countries in such an important format not being guided by such illegal decisions," Peskov responded when pressed on the possibility of Putin being arrested at the summit. Russia, which like this U.S. is not a signatory to the ICC, has always dismissed the international court's indictment of Putin as a baseless and illegal move.
Ramaphosa had in April caused some confusion when it emerged, he had said that the ruling African National Congress Party to which he is President would push for the government to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. Officials around Ramaphosa quickly walked those comments back.since the country assumed a"non-aligned stance" on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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