Former deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe said the government had successfully persuaded former Sudan leader Omar al Bashir not to attend former president Zuma's inauguration - and the same persuasion could be used with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
Former presidents Kgalema Motlanthe and Thabo Mbeki with former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo at the BRICS political parties dialogue in Boksburg.
Former deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe said the government had successfully persuaded former Sudan leader Omar al Bashir not to attend former president Jacob Zuma's inauguration - and the same persuasion could be used with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Motlanthe recalled how when he served as the deputy president in 2009, Bashir faced a warrant of arrest for war crimes, which was issued by the International Criminal Court .
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