2023-04-21 16:27:58
A delegation of Ukrainian academics and civil society organizations was in South Africa to advocate for the arrest of the Russian president in the country.
Vladimir Poutine must participate in August in the Brics summit, bloc Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, organized by Pretoria while he is under the arrest warrant issued in March by the ICC for his role in the crisis in Ukraine.
“We would like to talk to the ruling party, the ANC. It is time for a high-level South African delegation to come to Kyiv, see with their own eyes what is happening and state their position. said Professor Olexiy Haran, Professor of Comparative Politics, Kyiv-Mohyla National University.
But Pretoria has been playing the neutrality card since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. A position that makes the idea of Vladimir Putin’s arrest on his soil difficult.
“It’s like Putin coming here and not being arrested, it will be crucial for Ukraine, like for emotion. ” , explain Oleksandra RomantsovaExecutive Director of the Center for Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
She suggested the Russian president could attend the BRICS summit via Zoom – or send a minister who is not wanted by the ICC.
And to add: “We have understood that it is not so easy. It’s global politics and all that, but for us South Africa is a place where people are fighting for freedom, for equality and for dignity. And like Mandela, he is known to all Ukrainians. If that happens here, it will be a big disappointment.”
Earlier this year, South Africa held a joint military exercise with China and Russia. Undoubted proof of the vitality of the Pretoria-Moscow axis.
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