Arrest warrant against Kremlin chief
Lula: Justice decides on Putin’s arrest at G20
The President of Brazil: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. photo
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“Whether he will be arrested if he comes? It may be, it may not be”: Brazilian President Lula da Silva does not give any security guarantee for Russian President Putin at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.
The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva does not want to give Russian head of state Vladimir Putin a security guarantee for next year’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Whether Putin is arrested in Brazil on the basis of the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine is not within his sphere of competence, Lula said at the German-Brazilian government consultations in Berlin. “Whether he will be arrested when he comes? It may be, it may not be. That will be decided by the judiciary,” said Lula. In contrast to Russia and the USA, Brazil is a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Lula, along with numerous ministers from both countries, met in Berlin on Monday for the first German-Brazilian government consultations in more than eight years. According to the federal government, this concerned bilateral economic and financial policy issues, green transformation and the topics of energy, climate, environmental development, nutrition as well as foreign and defense policy. The meeting is also important for Berlin because Brazil took over the chairmanship of the G20 round of leading economic powers on December 1st.