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JEREMY MAGGS: President Cyril Ramaphosa claims that Russia and Ukraine are willing to listen to African leaders to end the ongoing war between the two countries. African leaders concluding their peace mission at the weekend. The initiative though, was upstaged by the South African security bungle that saw an SAA charter plane grounded in Poland for over 24 hours. Expert analysis coming up in just a moment, but first, this is what the president said about the trip.
We also added that the humanitarian assistance must get to the people who are suffering in the war and part of that must be about the release of prisoners of war, as well as the release of the children who were taken out of Ukraine and to be returned back. That, for me, was a bit unprofessional and they admit, of course, that they had copies of the original documents. It’s problematic that you are in charge of organising such an enormous project and you decide to carry copies of original documents and other members of your team had original documents. As a result, the media, of course, was also disadvantaged and was not able to cover what it meant to cover both in Ukraine and Russia.
But if you look at the ten-point peace plan that Cyril Ramaphosa has, it’s really broad strokes. It’s all about confidence building and other matters involving a release of prisoners and returning those children who were abducted from Ukraine into Russia. By the way, if that happens, we don’t know what impact that will have on the ICC indictment on President Vladimir Putin.
This is the main indictment on Vladimir Putin, so if that does happen, it means that the ICC might actually reconsider its position on Vladimir Putin, and we might just see Vladimir Putin coming to South Africa. So, the other nine is probably just to send us on a wild goose chase while the main point is to try and save Vladimir Putin by ensuring that there’s a [release] of prisoners and the children who were abducted are returned to their parents in Ukraine.
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