Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be arrested if he attends the G20 summit scheduled for next year in Brazil.
Speaking on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in New Delhi on the “First Post” news program, Lula said that Putin will be invited to attend next year’s summit.
He added that he himself intends to attend the BRICS meeting of developing countries scheduled to be held in Russia before the Rio meeting.
Lula said: “I think that Putin can easily go to Brazil. What I can tell you is that if I were the president of Brazil and (Putin) came to Brazil, it is impossible for him to be arrested.”
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Putin last March, accusing him of committing the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. Russia denies that its forces are involved in war crimes or forcibly taking Ukrainian children.
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