President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil promised that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, won’t be detained if he visits the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro next year when Brazil assumes the rotating leadership of the G20 in December.
World leaders convened in New Delhi for the two-day G20 Summit, but Putin was noticeably absent from the gathering. Due to a disagreement over whether South Africa would required to detain Putin in accordance with an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant, he also skipped the BRICS summit in Johannesburg.
Arrest warrant on Putin?
In March, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin on charges that he committed the war crime of forcible deportation of Ukrainian children. However, the Kremlin maintains that the warrant for Putin is “void”.
Despite the fact that Brazil is a signatory to the ICC, Lula stated on Saturday that Putin will invited to the conference in Rio de Janeiro the following year.
“We value tranquility and good human relations. Therefore, I think Putin can travel to Brazil with ease,” he remarked.
“There is no way that he will arrested if I am the president of Brazil and he comes to Brazil.”
Additionally, Lula declared that he would go to a BRICS summit in Russia the following year.
The G20 meeting is taking place in India amid tense ties between Moscow and the West following the situation in Ukraine, which led to significant tensions at the conference in Bali the year before.
The West backed down in order to obtain agreement on the Delhi Declaration while pushing for a harsher denunciation of the war in Ukraine in the G20 communiqué. The G20 nations approved a statement that avoided criticizing Moscow for its involvement in the conflict in Ukraine while urging other states to abstain from using force to seize territory.
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