South Africa Deserves Praise For Its Neutral Foreign Policy In The New Cold War
Andrew Korybko- South Africa has proven that it’s truly a major country with an independent foreign policy that always keeps its options open and never closes them to anyone.
South Africa has proven that it’s truly a major country with an independent foreign policy that always keeps its options open and never closes them to anyone.
BRICS-member South Africa practices a policy of principled neutrality towards the Ukrainian Conflict whereby it neither supports nor opposes any of the combatants. Instead, just like the vast majority of humanity across the rest of the Global South, it’s interested in retaining positive relations with Moscow and Kiev. To that end, South Africa strictly abides by international law as enshrined in the UN Charter and therefore hasn’t sanctioned Russia like the US demands despite enormous pressure for it to do so.
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