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The BRICS, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is holding its first in-person meeting since before the Covid-19 pandemic, but Putin participated via video call after his travel to South Africa was complicated by an International Criminal Court arrest warrant issued for him in March over the abduction of children from Ukraine.
The government in Pretoria has been trying to find a solution which means they wouldn't be obliged to arrest Vladimir Putin, if he arrived in the country.
In South Africa , presidency announced that President Vladimir Putin would not be attending the BRICS summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) scheduled for next month in Johannesburg. Russia will be represented by Sergei Lavrov. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Cape Town Robyn Smith tells us more.
Vladimir Putin, who is under an international arrest warrant, will not attend a BRICS nations summit in South Africa next month, the country's presidency said on Wednesday, ending months of speculation over whether the Russian President would show up.
BRICS foreign ministers on Thursday asserted their bloc's ambition to rival Western powers but their talks in South Africa were overshadowed by questions over whether Russia's president would be arrested if he attended a summit in August. South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said her country was mulling options if Vladimir Putin, the subject of a war crimes arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, came to the planned BRICS summit in Johannesburg.
South Africa's leading opposition party said on Tuesday it had taken legal action to force the government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian President were to attend a planned BRICS summit in the country.
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