President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that next month's BRICS summit, which Vladimir Putin has been invited to, will be held in-person despite an arrest warrant on the Russian leader.
South Africa will host the Brics bloc summit in August as planned.
He did not say if Putin - who is wanted by the International Criminal Court over accusations that Russia unlawfully deported Ukrainian children - would attend or not.We are going to have a physical BRICS summit, all of us are committed to having a summit where we will be able to eyeball each other. There had been rumours in the local media that Pretoria was considering moving the talks to China to avoid being put in the position of having to arrest Putin.
The African leaders' mission brought the voice of a continent that has badly suffered from repercussions of the Ukraine conflict, particularly with rising grain prices.
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