Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva puts into perspective his statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be arrested during a possible visit to Brazil. “I don’t know if the Brazilian justice system will capture him. It is the judiciary that decides on this, not the government or parliament,” he said during a press conference in the Indian capital New Delhi.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March. He is accused of “war crimes” after the “illegal deportation” of thousands of Ukrainian children as part of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Brazil is a member of the ICC and should, in theory, arrest the president when he sets foot on Brazilian soil. But at the G20 summit last weekend, Lula da Silva said Putin should not fear arrest when he attends the next G20 summit in Brazil in July 2024.
He’s coming back to that now. However, the Brazilian president questioned Brazil’s membership of the ICC. He wants to know why the country has become a member “of a court that the United States does not accept.” Moreover, other countries such as Russia, China and India are also not members, it sounds. “It is the emerging countries that sign things that harm themselves,” the president said.
Putin did not participate in the G20 summit in India, but was represented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin has hardly left Russia. He was also not present at the previous G20 summit in Indonesia.
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