President Cyril Ramaphosa will hold talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as Pretoria considers switching the venue of an upcoming BRICS summit to avoid having to execute an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin if he attends
Ramaphosa held talks with Putin on Wednesday to discuss preparations for the August gathering of the heads of state from the five-member bloc, which includes Brazil and India.
The president will make another phone call to the president of China, Xi Jinping this week, and will call Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in due course.Putin headache won't let up’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Putin in March for alleged war crimes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As a signatory to the ICC, government would be obliged to detain the Russian president if he attends the BRICS gathering.
An inter-ministerial committee, led by Deputy President Paul Mashatile that is looking into the repercussions of a Putin visit, met this week to finalise a report on government’s options, according to a person familiar with its deliberations. The source asked not to be identified because the information was not public. Legal opinions sought by government did not identify any potential loopholes around the ICC warrant, the source said.
China is ready to work with South Africa to strengthen security at the BRICS summit and elsewhere and push for the development of a comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, the news agency cited Wang as saying.
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