South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the ruling ANC party wants the country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the war crime of "deporting" Ukrainian children, and South Africa is due to host a summit of the BRICS - a group of countries including South Africa, Brazil, China, India, and Russia - in August. As a member of the ICC, the country is theoretically supposed to arrest the Russian president if he enters its territory. Ramaphosa said that the ANC's decision to withdraw from the ICC was made "largely" because of the perceived unfair treatment of some countries by the court.

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