South Africa: Powerful countries get away with it even if they commit genocide

Published on February 23, 2024

South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor said, “International legal organizations leave powerful countries and their allies unpunished even if they commit crimes of genocide.”

Pandor said, during her speech at the meeting of foreign ministers of the G20 countries in Brazil, in which she touched on the objection of some major powers to South Africa’s submission of a lawsuit against the Israeli enemy to the International Court of Justice on the grounds of committing genocide crimes in Palestine.

She considered that the position issued by some major powers is an indication of the institutional bias prevailing in international law.