Targeted by an international arrest warrant, Vladimir Putin risks arrest abroad. He did not attend the previous G20 which took place in New Delhi. What will happen to that of Rio?
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andry Kostin has urged Brazil, where Vladimir Putin may attend the G20 summit on November 18-19, to execute an arrest warrant against the Russian president. Due “In light of reports that Putin could attend the G20 summit in Brazil, I would like to recall that the Brazilian authorities, as a State party to the Rome Statute, have the obligation to arrest him if he dares to do so. give back”said Andry Kostine in an interview with Reuters.
The Prosecutor’s Office International Criminal Court (CPI) declined to comment. Member States “have an obligation to cooperate in accordance” to the founding treaty of the Court, declared for his part Fadi El Abdallah, spokesperson for the ICC. The ICC issued a arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin in March 2023 for the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children on the sidelines of the Russian invasion of 2022, a mandate described by the Kremlin as “null and void”.
Any country signatory to the founding treaty of the ICC, the Rome Statute entered into force in 2002is required to execute the arrest warrant and transfer Vladimir Putin to The Hague, seat of the criminal court. Mongolia, although a signatory to the Rome Statute, received the Russian president for an official visit in September.
The porte-parole du Kremlin, Dmitri Peskovtold journalists on Monday that no decision had yet been made regarding Vladimir Putin’s participation in the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, on November 18 and 19. THE Brazilian President Lula had an ambiguous position on the subject. He first assured that Vladimir Putin would receive an invitation before changing his mind. At the end of the New Delhi summit in September 2023, Lula finally declared that it would be up to his country’s justice system to decide on the arrest of his Russian counterpart if he went to Rio, while saying he hoped that “ by then, the war will be (it) over”. But this is still not the case.
