ANC Finally Takes A Stance Against Russia, Calls for International Community to Stand With Ukraine
- The African National Congress's spokesperson Pule Mabe says the ruling party's National Working Committee has taken a stance against Ukraine's invasion
- The party is now asking the international community to stand with Ukraine and its people in times of conflict
- Mabe says the international relations between Ukraine and Russia should underpin the Freedom Charter
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JOHANNESBURG - Pule Mabe, the African National Congress spokesperson addressed the media at Luthuli House on Thursday, 3 March to speak about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
On Thursday, 24 February Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian troops would be invading Ukraine.
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Mabe stated that the ANC National Working Committee(NWC) is deeply concerned about the situation in Ukraine and are now calling on the international community to stand with Ukraine as shooting and bombings currently taking place, according to SABC News.
“The international relations should be underpinned by the commitment to development, democracy, human rights, peace and security in line with the call by the Freedom Charter, that there shall be peace and friendship," said Mabe.
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Mabe says the NWC had echoed President Ramaphosa's appeal for the UN Security Council to pursue a peaceful and diplomatic settlement of the situation in accordance with the UN Charter's principles, reports IOL.
Since the violence began, hundreds of people have died in Ukraine, and UN agencies estimate that over one million people have crossed the border into Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova, and other European nations.
DA slams Defence Minister Thandi Modise for attending a Russian cocktail party on the day Ukraine was invaded
Briefly News previously reported that the Minister of Defence Thandi Modise's office has come out to defend the minister's decision to attend a cocktail event at the house of the Russian ambassador to South Africa Ilya Rogachev on 24 February, the same day Russia invaded Ukraine.
Modise's spokesperson Cornelius Monama was in attendance for the Russian Motherland Defender's Day alongside Tsepe Motumi, the minister's special adviser and General Rudzani Maphwanya, the chief of the South African National Defence Force.
Monama says they were in attendance because they had to fulfil the defence department's international affairs. He further explains that the event they attended is an annual event that is attended by various diplomats and businesses, according to TimesLIVE.
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