The DA leader John Steenhuisen says Russian President Vladimir Putin should be arrested if he comes to South Africa.
The Democratic Alliance’s John Steenhuisen says Russian President Vladimir Putin should be arrested if he comes to South Africa.
Steenhuisen says the country has a legal obligation to execute the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Putin.The South African government is taking legal advice on how to handle the arrest warrant in the event the Russian leader attends a Brics summit in August.“I think that any responsible president would advise Putin given the ICC arrest warrant that he should perhaps not come,” says Steenhuisen.
“But if he does come, I think SA is obliged if it’s for the rule of law and govern according to the constitutional principles you would be obliged to execute that arrest warrant. If he is here we have the legal obligation. The principle of the rule of law means that the equality before the law and SA is oblige to execute that. We have not left the ICC. We’ve remained signatories. Putin must be arrested,” he adds.
“We are going to be writing to the minister that as soon as next week we sit and discuss this matter, just to understand from their point of view as the executive, how are they going to approach this matter because we are doing oversight on them.”The Brics summit will take place in South Africa in August.
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