President Cyril Ramaphosa held painstaking negotiations with his BRICS counterparts three weeks ago, during which consensus was reached that Russia's President Vladimir Putin should be asked not to attend the summit planned for Johannesburg next month.
President Cyril Ramaphosa held painstaking negotiations with his BRICS counterparts three weeks ago, during which consensus was reached that Russia's President Vladimir Putin should be asked not to attend the summit planned for Johannesburg next month.
News24 understands that efforts to convince Putin to send a proxy to the summit kicked in when the heads of state could not agree on moving the summit from Johannesburg. A sigh of relief accompanied the development on Wednesday that Putin, wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court , would not attend the BRICS summit in South Africa next month.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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