Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has withdrawn his security guarantee for Russian President Vladimir Putin when he visits Brazil.
Lula said on Sunday on the sidelines of the G20 summit that Putin was not at risk of arrest, despite an international arrest warrant issued for him in Brazil. “If I am the president of Brazil and if he comes to Brazil, he will not be arrested under any circumstances,” he assured.
“It is the judiciary that decides”
Now he added on Monday: “I don’t know if the Brazilian judiciary will jail him. It is the judiciary that decides, not the government.”
Lula caused a stir with his statement
The (ICC), based in The Hague, issued an arrest warrant for Putin last March. The Russian president has avoided international meetings since the start of the war of aggression in Ukraine. Putin also did not attend the summit in India this weekend, even though the country, unlike Brazil, has never become a member of the ICC.
Lula hopes for an end to the war
On Saturday, G20 participants adopted a statement that did not explicitly condemn Moscow for the war in Ukraine. Instead, all countries were urged not to use force to seize territory. The next G20 meeting will take place in November 2024 in the Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro. Lula said he hoped that “the war will be over by then.”
Source: Krone
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