South Africa\u2019s International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor has expressed concern at the \u201cvery negative\u201d stance taken against the country following its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).<\/p>\n
According to media reports monitored here, Pandor accused some US lawmakers of using their country\u2019s position as the world\u2019s largest economy to harm investment and employment prospects in her country in retaliation to South Africa\u2019s decision to take Israel to the ICJ.<\/p>\n
South Africa filed a case at the ICJ in December 2023, accusing Israel of failing to uphold its commitments under the 1948 Genocide Convention.<\/p>\n
In an interim ruling on January 26 this year, the UN court deemed South Africa\u2019s claims plausible, and ordered provisional measures for Israel\u2019s government to prevent genocidal acts and allow humanitarian flow into the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of responses, unfortunately there are some legislators in the United States of America that have taken a very negative position against my country,\u201d Pandor told journalists on Sunday on the sidelines of the International Diplomacy Forum in Turkey.<\/p>\n
Some US lawmakers have recently taken a critical stance against South Africa, viewing Pretoria\u2019s pursuit of justice as detrimental to bilateral relations and threatening Washington\u2019s security.<\/p>\n
This has seen some lawmakers introducing a bill in the US Congress in February, calling for a review of Washington\u2019s bilateral relationship with Pretoria.<\/p>\n
Pandor said South Africa is a sovereign nation, which had a right to take up the case against Israel even though many countries did not agree with its support for Palestine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something we have always had, and we will not turn our backs on the Palestinian people,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cSo, we have to continue to lobby the American people to say, \u2018to act against South Africa when they were pursuing a very moral and correct issue in the global space, would be entirely wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa\u2019s International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor has expressed concern at the \u201cvery negative\u201d stance taken against the country following its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). According to media reports monitored here, Pandor accused some US lawmakers of using their country\u2019s position as the world\u2019s largest economy to harm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"APA News","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,30],"tags":[1586,368,2141,1587,122],"class_list":["post-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-southern-africa","tag-gaza","tag-international-criminal-court-icc","tag-naledi-pandor","tag-palestine","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}