Putin’s absence at the summit has been announced by the South African presidency, ending months of speculation.

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.

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    • rjs001@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      If you can’t even get the name of the party right then you have no right to comment on this

    • rjs001@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Of course normal people will deny something that has no evidence. Am I a UFO denialist?

    • o_d [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      38·
      1 year ago

      Who cares if it’s copypasta? It’s well sourced to the point where you’re completely unable to come up with any sort of counter-argument. “ItS gEnOcIdE dEnIAl!”. Then prove it libtard.

        • o_d [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
          24·
          1 year ago

          Believing Chinese fairytales and demand sources.

          This isn’t an argument. Thank you for proving my point.

          You people are amazing.

          Aaawwweee! Thaaaanks! ☺️

          • Beetschnapps@universeodon.com
            13·
            1 year ago

            @o_d @rustyfish “awee” your self to the toilet. The article isn’t well sourced: “Boris Grozovski, a Russian economics expert from the Wilson Center think tank, told Newsweek…” that’s also ignorant of the fact that this is a comparison of the economic growth of Russia, a country with an gdp equivelant to Italy vs the dominant economic power over the entire planet aka the USA. California the state makes more money than russia. You’re desperate/stupid. “Awee” away dumbass

            • o_d [he/him]@lemmy.ml
              4·
              1 year ago

              Okay, but you’re missing the point. The argument that @C4RCOSA@lemmygrad.ml makes is in the first line of their first post in this thread.

              Russia is not on the verge of collapse

              Nothing you’ve stated does anything to disprove the evidence presented nor does it disprove the statement made in isolation of any evidence.

              Edit: I suppose it was naive of me to assume that any of you reactionaries would have bothered to actually read the content that you’re supposedly refuting. Your dogmatism is clearly on display here.

              • Beetschnapps@universeodon.com
                01·
                1 year ago

                @o_d @C4RCOSA I’m replying to your nonsense replies propping up the BS article in the first place. There also happens to be plenty of data to support that Russia is not flourishing, and is legit suffering from sanctions. No shortage of evidence there. From fielding tanks out of the 50s, to their private and commercial air fleets… you’d have to be ignorant to claim blue skies. You’re spouting the trumpian BS of “people are saying” while claiming other people have no source

                • Beetschnapps@universeodon.com
                  01·
                  1 year ago

                  @o_d @C4RCOSA that’s not to say they are on the verge of total collapse either. But def not roses and sunshine. Sorry I couldn’t previously add more as mastodon limits character count and has no simple down vote mechanism. It’s a bit weird seeing replies with no mention of what they’re replying to, spread across the space with equal prominence as original posts. At times it feels like mastodon has no concept of threads and this everything is noise compared to signal

    • Carcosa@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      616·
      1 year ago

      Chinese homeownership is 89% compared to the united states 65% under Xi Jinping’s tenure

      Chinese poverty has continued to decrease under Xi Jinping’s tenure

      Chinese literacy rate has continued to increase and is higher than the United States

      Chinese maternal mortality rate has continued to decrease while the Untied States is increasing

      China’s homicide rate has continued to decrease while the United States is increasing

      China’s suicide rate has continued to decrease while the United States is increasing

      https://www.macrotrends.net/

      I feel sorry for those that live in the west, maybe if you vote hard enough your oligarch will grant you a crumb or a low interest morgage

      • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        94·
        1 year ago

        Having to compare oneself with the capitalist hellhole that is the United States just to look good is really telling for China.

        Also more copypasta. I give up.

        • Carcosa@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          55·
          1 year ago

          Couldn’t be because you have nothing substantial to say must be bacuse i’m a copypasta tankie wumao

        • Carcosa@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          46·
          1 year ago

          Chinese homeownership is 89% Germany’s is 49.5

          Germany’s Suicide Rate is 12.3 average compared to 8.1

          China gdp growth rate for 2021 was 8.11%, a 5.87% increase from 2020.

          Germany gdp growth rate for 2021 was 2.63%, a 6.32% increase from 2020.

          Per: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators/

          Germany does have lower crime, better literacy, and a lower maternal mortality rate however I would like to add that China’s vast rural areas have improved immensely from 1949 onward.