The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvaassured this Monday that he will review his country’s position on the status of the International Criminal Courtof which his country is a signatory, after ensuring that he will not allow the arrest of the president of Russia in Brazilian territory.
“The role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (which imposed the arrest warrant against Putin) has to be reviewed (…) I am going to study this matter,” he said at a press conference in New Delhi, when asked on whether the Russian president could be arrested if he decides to attend the summit of the G20 which will be held next year in Brazil.
Last March, the ICC issued an arrest warrant against the Russian president for alleged crimes of war in ukraineafter which Putin has been absent from several high-level meetings, such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit recently organized in the African country.
Lula, who yesterday received the presidency of the G20 from India, hopes, he said, that the presidents of China, Xi Jinpingand Russia attend the next G20 summit to be held in Brasilia in November 2024.
“I don’t know why President Xi and President Putin didn’t come. We will invite them, we hope they will participate. I hope that when we hold the summit it will be over,” the president said at a press conference in New Delhi on Monday.