JOHANNESBURG, April 25 (Reuters) – South Africa’s administering African Public Congress will expect to cancel the country’s enrollment of the Global Crook Court (ICC), President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday, the second time it has endeavored to do as such.
The party’s choice at an end of the week meeting of its public leader board came after the ICC gave a capture warrant on Walk 17 against Russian President Vladimir Putin, blaming him for the atrocity of unlawfully ousting many kids from Ukraine.
During a state visit by Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, Ramaphosa told reporters, “The governing party, the African National Congress, has taken that decision that it is prudent that South Africa should pull out of the ICC, largely because of the manner in which the ICC has been seen to be dealing with (these type of problems).”
Two days earlier, the parliament of South Africa announced that it would end a seven-year legislative process to remove South Africa from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
In December, the ruling party made the decision that South Africa should stay in the ICC and try to make changes internally, which has now been reversed. As a result, the process was abandoned.
The international arrest warrant for Putin was issued after he received an invitation from South Africa to the BRICS summit in August. If he ever entered the country, South Africa would be required to hand him over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Anil Sooklal, the official in charge of South Africa’s relationship with the countries that make up the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) group, told Reuters, “He has been invited by President Ramaphosa and Russia has indicated attendance.”
On Monday, the Kremlin stated that Putin would decide whether or not to personally attend the summit.
This could once more initiate the parliamentary procedure, in which withdrawal from the ICC would only require a simple majority.
However, the procedure is time-consuming and unlikely to be finished by the BRICS summit.