South Africa’s president has backtracked on a claim that his party wanted to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, ahead of a planned visit to the country by Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, who was indicted last month for war crimes in Ukraine.
Cyril Ramaphosa had “regrettably . . . erroneously affirmed” in comments he made at a press conference on Tuesday that the governing African National Congress was planning to leave the court, his office said.
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