(Johannesburg Comprehensive Electric) The South African government announced that Russian President Putin would not attend the BRICS Summit in South Africa to resolve the debate in South Africa's arrest of Putin.
The BRICS Summit will be held in Johannesburg from August 22 to 24.South African Presidential Palace issued a statement on Wednesday (July 19) saying that Putin has decided to be attended by Foreign Minister Raft Ravorf.
The International Criminal Court accused Putin's crime of war in March this year and issued an arrest warrant.If Putin attended the summit, South Africa, a member of the International Criminal Court, was obliged to arrest him.In order to bypass this issue, South Africa has proposed to move the summit to China in China may meet in China in a virtual way, but it is rejected by members of the five BRICS countries.
South Africa's opposition party entered the court before and asked the government to arrest him immediately when he entered Putin and transfer it to the International Criminal Court.The South African court documents announced on Tuesday (18th) showed that South African President Lama Tosa requested the International Criminal Court to exempt South Africa's arrest warrant, saying that Russia had stated that the arrest of Putin was equivalent to declared war on Russia.
However, Russia has denied told South Africa that arrest of Putin means war.The Kremlin spokesman Peskov said on Wednesday: "Everyone in the world knows what the right to attempt to infringe the Russian head of state means, so there is no need to explain anything to anyone."
On the other hand, the leaders of Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean failed to request Russia to reach an agreement on a statement responsible for the Ukraine War, highlighting their differences in Russia and Ukraine's crisis.
The two -day EU -Latin America and the Caribbean National Alliance (CELAC) Summit ended on Tuesday, and the participants issued a joint communique to express "deep attention" to Russia and Ukraine's conflict, but did not mention Russia.
The chairman of the National Alliance of Latin America and the Caribbean, San Vincent and Prime Minister Grimadin said, "We cannot let the Summit of the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean National Alliance become the Ukrainian issue summit. But obviouslyUkraine issues are very important for Europe and the world, as is other conflicts in the world. "