But no security guarantee: Lula puts his statement about Putin into perspective

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“I don’t know if the Brazilian judiciary will jail him. It is the judiciary that decides, not the government or parliament,” Lula said at a press conference in New Delhi on Monday. Lula said in an interview with Indian news portal Firstpost this weekend that Putin could travel to the G20 summit in Brazil next year regardless of an international arrest warrant. This will take place in Rio de Janeiro in July 2024.

At the same time, he questioned his country’s membership in the International Criminal Court. He did not want to withdraw his membership, but “I want to know why Brazil has joined a court that the United States does not accept,” Lula continued. Other countries such as Russia, India and China are also not members. “It is the emerging countries that sign things that harm themselves,” said the Brazilian president. Brazil is a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

At this year’s G20 meeting in the Indian capital New Delhi last weekend, Russia was represented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. There is an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. Putin also did not appear in person at the Brics summit of key emerging countries in Johannesburg.

(SDA)

Source: Blick