Russia's Putin will not show up at BRICS summit: South Africa | World News

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will not show up at a BRICS nations summit in South Africa subsequent thirty day period, the country's presidency stated on Wednesday, ending months of speculation.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin(AFP)

Putin's prospective go to has been a thorny diplomatic problem for South Africa.

The Russian chief is the goal of an Intercontinental Prison Court docket arrest warrant -- a provision that Pretoria as an ICC member would be anticipated to put into practice have been he to established foot in the region.

"By mutual settlement, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation will not show up at the summit, but the Russian Federation will be represented by Overseas Minister Mr (Sergei) Lavrov," Vincent Magwenya, a spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa, stated in a assertion.

The determination follows "a amount of consultations" held by Ramaphosa in current months, the most current of which took spot "past night time," Magwenya stated.

South Africa is the recent chair of the BRICS team, a accumulating of heavyweights that also incorporates Brazil, Russia, India and China, which sees alone as a counterweight to Western financial domination.

Putin was formally invited to BRICS summit owing to consider spot in Johannesburg in between August 22 and 24, but Pretoria has been underneath significant domestic and intercontinental strain not to host him.

"President Ramaphosa is self-assured that the Summit will be a achievement and phone calls on the country to increase the important hospitality to the numerous delegates who will get there from a variety of elements of the continent and the world," Magwenya stated.

Putin is sought by the ICC above accusations that Russia unlawfully deported Ukrainian little ones.

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