Jakarta –
The President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said President of RussiaVladimir Putin will not be arrested if he attends the G20 Summit meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2024. Lula believes Putin can easily go to Brazil.
Reported by Reuters, Sunday (10/9/2023), Lula said this on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in India, when interviewed by the Firstpost news program. Lula said Putin would be invited to next year’s event, and added that he himself planned to attend a meeting of the BRICS bloc of developing countries scheduled in Russia before the meeting in Rio.
“I’m sure Putin can go to Brazil easily,” Lula said.
“What I can tell you is that if I were President of Brazil, and he came to Brazil, there is no way he would be arrested,” he said.
It is known that the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Putin in March, accusing him of committing war crimes by illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. Russia denies its troops were involved in war crimes or forcibly taking Ukrainian children.
Meanwhile, Putin has repeatedly not attended international meetings, and was not present at the G20 meeting in Delhi. But Putin sent Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the event.
Brazil is a signatory to the Rome Statute which was the forerunner to the founding of the ICC. Lula’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On Saturday, the G20 countries adopted a consensus declaration that did not condemn Russia for the war in Ukraine, but called on all countries not to use force to seize territory.
(yld/knv)
2023-09-10 05:43:04
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