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South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor hosts Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ahead of last months naval drills between the two countries. Photo/CNN

BRICS: Will Putin be arrested in South Africa?

South Africa
  • As a signatory to the ICC, South Africa is under a legal obligation to heed the warrant and arrest the leader of Russia.  
  • The European Union, as well as the United States, have all sent diplomatic envoys to South Africa urging the administration in Pretoria to broker some kind of peace talks.
  • South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor raised the issue of double standards in the ICC. 

South Africa has extended an invitation to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to attend the BRICS Summit later this year in South Africa amidst an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Putin for the invasion of Ukraine.

BRICS is made up of the world’s largest emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The five countries will be holding their 15th annual summit in Durban South Africa later this year.

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On December 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke on restrictions on travellers from southern African countries. www.theexchange.africa

Russia, 4 other BRICS Countries way of dealing with Covid-19

Countries

A few African countries have also imposed similar restrictions on entry into their territories. The southern African countries include Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia and Eswatini.
Russia and South Africa, which later joined in 2011, are both members of the BRICS, and since the outbreak of the coronavirus in December 2020, have discussed some aspects as well as the prospects for collaborative work in fighting the disease.
Russia and South Africa previously proposed localizing production of Russian vaccines, but the key setback was that the vaccines were yet to be approved by the World Health Organization. As a result, there were neither concrete practical results nor effective collaboration between the two countries.…