Arrest warrant against Kremlin chief - Lula: Justice decides on Putin arrest at G20
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva does not want to give Russia's head of state Vladimir Putin a security guarantee for next year's G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Whether Putin is arrested in Brazil due to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Ukraine is not within his sphere of competence, said Lula at the German-Brazilian government consultations in Berlin. "Will he be arrested when he arrives? Maybe, maybe not. That will be decided by the judiciary," said Lula. Unlike Russia and the USA, Brazil is a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Lula, together with numerous ministers from both countries, met in Berlin on Monday for the first German-Brazilian government consultations in more than eight years. According to the German government, they discussed bilateral economic and financial policy issues, green transformation and the topics of energy, climate, environmental development, food as well as foreign and defense policy. The meeting is also important for Berlin because Brazil took over the chairmanship of the G20 round of leading economic powers on December 1.
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