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Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit of the BRICS group of nations in South Africa in August “by mutual agreement”, South Africa’s presidency said on Wednesday.
“By mutual agreement, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation will not attend the summit, but the Russian Federation will be represented by Foreign Minister Mr [Sergey] Lavrov,” Vincent Magwenya, a spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa, said in a statement.
South Africa faced a dilemma in hosting the summit because, as a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March for alleged war crimes, it would theoretically be required to arrest him if he were to attend.
The dilemma led to intense debate in South Africa and the West about whether the warrant would be executed, given South Africa’s stance of neutrality on the war in Ukraine and Pretoria’s historic ties to the Kremlin.
In 2015, South Africa also failed to arrest then-Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, who was also the subject of an ICC warrant.
The leaders of Brazil, India and South Africa will attend the summit, the presidency said.
BRICS, a bloc of emerging economic powers comprising Brazil, Russia, India and China was formed in 2019 as BRIC. South Africa joined the following year after an invitation from China, expanding the group.
Ethiopia, Iran and Argentina have also applied to join the bloc.
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South Africa: “We agree to arrest you if you come.”
Putin: “Ok, I agree not to come.”
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Sounds pretty mutual to me
Russia is a fascist, terrorist oligarchy on the verge of collapse.
China is a dictatorship with free hand to do genocides at home (Uygurs, Tibet etc) because they have nukes.
South Africa is almost a failed state, where due to corruption people only have electricity a few hours a day and where a separatist movement in the only functional province is growing everyday.
India is sliding fast into a nationalistic hindu dictactorship as well. Although praised for being the biggest democracy in the world, its flaws are growing constantly under Modi.
And what does Brazil want to do with this bunch? Didn’t Bolsonaro damage its image enough?
Iran and Ethiopia want to join? Wow, it can always get creepier.
Pedant here, nations cannot engage in terrorism because terrorism is done by groups that are not nation-states. What Russia does is acts of war.
So I see you’re unfamiliar with the concept of state terrorism.
No I reject the concept outright. Every act of “state terrorism” is an act of war and I challenge you to think of an act of state terrorism that would not be an act of war.
Putin is the prime suspect of several acts against his own civil population. You also call that war? Against which army?
No that would be murder when done domestically.
Acts of war do not need to be waged against a military. Im not sure why you would think that.
I’m also not sure why you keep denying a concept accepted by everyone including academia. But to be honest I don’t care, this conversation is too silly. Have a good one.
If it is accepted by academia then shouldn’t there be a source?
And i don’t know why a rational person would think this is universally agreed upon or that “including academia” would some how add value to their opinion.
😂 fearless leader my ass, that little cunt is scared as shit to leave his bunker.
Yes you might say he’s shitting brics
Yes, this is the reason, he is scared.
Putin mutually agreed with the voices in his head, I guess.
Also known as “I can’t go outside because I’ll get shot in the back of the head in multiple maybe even by my personal guard who likely have family feeding sunflowers.”
“Mutual agreement”… Okkk 🙄
