Cyril Ramaphosa renews efforts to leave court over arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin but his party says otherwise
South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has announced that the country wwill resume its efforts to leave the international criminal court in the wake of anBut there was confusion over the real position of Ramaphosa’s African National Congress , as the party put out a statement the same day saying South Africa’s effort to withdraw from the court should be rescinded., and the court issued an arrest warrant.
Ramaphosa told reporters on Tuesday: “The governing party, the ANC, has taken the decision that it is prudent that Southshould pull out of the ICC largely because of the manner in which the ICC has been seen to be dealing with these types of problems.” South Africa is a signatory to the ICC’s founding document, the Rome statute, and would be obliged to obey the arrest warrant, but the government has long complained of what it deems to be the court’s double standards.
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