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Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit of the BRICS group of nations in South Africa in August “by mutual agreement”, South Africa’s presidency said on Wednesday.
“By mutual agreement, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation will not attend the summit, but the Russian Federation will be represented by Foreign Minister Mr [Sergey] Lavrov,” Vincent Magwenya, a spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa, said in a statement.
South Africa faced a dilemma in hosting the summit because, as a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March for alleged war crimes, it would theoretically be required to arrest him if he were to attend.
The dilemma led to intense debate in South Africa and the West about whether the warrant would be executed, given South Africa’s stance of neutrality on the war in Ukraine and Pretoria’s historic ties to the Kremlin.
In 2015, South Africa also failed to arrest then-Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, who was also the subject of an ICC warrant.
The leaders of Brazil, India and South Africa will attend the summit, the presidency said.
BRICS, a bloc of emerging economic powers comprising Brazil, Russia, India and China was formed in 2019 as BRIC. South Africa joined the following year after an invitation from China, expanding the group.
Ethiopia, Iran and Argentina have also applied to join the bloc.
@C4RCOSA @bossito I see the source of their magical economic performance
BRICS fuels their economies by consuming the souls of children, provided by their close ally Russia
Got it!
https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/110736500733270933
Explain how children leaving a warzone fuels BRICS economies?
oec.world charts
Russia
Brazil
India
China
South Africa
If you are concerned about child labor one only needs to look at the united states meat processing facilities:
https://time.com/6256728/meatpacking-child-labor/
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/18/us/mississippi-chicken-processing-plant-16-year-old-death/index.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kids-found-working-graveyard-shifts-on-meat-plant-kill-floors-for-packers-sanitation-services-feds-say
An industry that has been proven to cause trauma
https://metro.co.uk/2017/12/31/how-killing-animals-everyday-leaves-slaughterhouse-workers-traumatised-7175087/?ito=cbshare
@C4RCOSA@lemmygrad.ml
It has the same thing to do with two fascist dictatorships aligning with three democracies who have no sense of self worth or dignity desperate to pretend to be world powers by acting as henchmen for bullies…
Or the same thing witb people so desperate for purpose that they defend war criminals dredging up the faults of a filth capitalist exploitation while both their buddy countries are guilty of that but worse
You not only lack moral authority defending fascists you actually seem to lack a basic understanding of the concept of moral authority
Ergo you are no longer comedically amusing as a Baghdad Bob but openly pathetic and pitiable
Adieu
Please provide any actual evidence of so called “henchmen” I’ll wait …
I’m not here to entertain, just provide mild pushback against propaganda. Please explain how moral authority is relevant here? We are talking about material reality not ideology.