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How world sees SA: Ramaphosa’s ICC gaffe underscores Putin quandary – FT
Vladimir Putin’s attendance at an upcoming BRICS summit in Johannesburg was already a huge headache for his counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa.
By Joseph Cotterill of The Financial Times
Vladimir Putin's attendance at an upcoming emerging markets summit in Johannesburg was already a huge headache for his counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa, after the Russian president was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.
And that was before this week, when Ramaphosa compounded the problem — and embarrassed South Africa — by wrongly claiming that the ruling African National Congress wanted the country to quit the court over "these types of problems", when his party had resolved the opposite.
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