Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t attend summit due to ICC arrest warrant, according to South Africa

Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t attend the BRICS financial summit in Johannesburg subsequent month, the workplace of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stated in a press release Wednesday.

The choice means South Africa won’t face the dilemma of whether or not it ought to perform an Worldwide Felony Courtroom arrest warrant in opposition to the Russian chief.

South Africa is a signatory to the treaty that created the ICC and would have been obliged underneath that to arrest Putin, though the nation had given sturdy hints that it might have possible not executed the arrest warrant.

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However Wednesday’s announcement permits South Africa to keep away from the issue and comes after Ramaphosa spoke with Putin by phone in current days.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is pictured throughout a gathering on the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on July 18, 2023.   (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Picture through AP)

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The choice for Putin to not attend was by “mutual settlement,” Ramaphosa’s workplace stated. Russia will as an alternative be represented on the Aug 22-24 summit by International Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The BRICS financial bloc is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. South Africa had invited the leaders of the opposite 4 nations to the summit earlier than Putin’s arrest warrant was issued by the ICC in March.

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The announcement brings to an finish months of hypothesis over if Putin was going to journey to South Africa. Putin has not traveled to any nation that could be a signatory to the ICC treaty since he was indicted for conflict crimes over the kidnapping of youngsters from Ukraine.