Despite an international arrest warrant, Russian President Vladimir Putin was able to travel to the G20 summit in Brazil next year without being arrested. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said this in an interview with Indian news portal ‘Firstpost’. “If I am president and he comes to Brazil, there is no way he can be arrested,” Lula said. Brazil’s independence must be respected, he added.
The next G20 summit will take place in Rio de Janeiro in July 2024. Lula remembered that there was an upcoming Brics summit in Russia, which he would travel to himself. There is an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for the Russian president for war crimes in Ukraine.
At this year’s G20 meeting in the Indian capital New Delhi last weekend, Russia was represented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Brazil, unlike India, is a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. (sda/dpa)
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