Brazil’s judiciary must decide whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will be arrested if he attends next year’s G20 summit, which Brazil is hosting, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday, after he earlier assured the Kremlin that Russia’s leader, his will not be arrested if he comes to his country, Reuters reports.
“If Putin decides to join (next year’s summit), the decision (about possible arrest) should be made by the judicial system, not my government,” Lula said Monday during a discussion with reporters in New Delhi, where he was attending the summit. G20 is hosted by India, news.ro notes.
On Saturday, he told the First Post TV show that Putin would not be arrested “under any circumstances” if he attended the summit in Rio de Janeiro.
In March, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin, charging him with war crimes for illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.
Brazil signed the Rome Statute, which led to the creation of the ICC.
But Brazil’s president said on Monday that the country’s accession to the International Criminal Court should be reviewed, given that countries such as the United States, China and India have not joined the protocol that recognizes the court’s jurisdiction.
“I want to know why the US, India and China did not sign the ISS treaty and why our country did,” Lula said.
Brazil signed the Rome Statute in 2000 and it has been in force since 2002. Lula da Silva also led Brazil from 2003 to 2010.
Putin was absent from the last two G20 summits, in Bali and New Delhi, and Russia was represented by its foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
Source: Hot News
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