The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieiraadmitted that there may be an arrest warrant against the Russian president, Vladimir Putinif he comes to Brazil for the G20 leaders’ summit in November.
Vieira highlighted that there is a ‘tradition’ of immunity for heads of state, but considered that a possible request for arrest against the Russian leader could occur.
“There could be that. I cannot limit, restrict a judge, nor imagine or guess what they will do. There could be, so many other things could happen”, he declared, during an interview with CNN Brazilnot Sunday the 13th.
The minister also pointed out that Putin was invited to the meeting, but that “he will come if he wants or can”. In the last two meetings of the bloc’s leaders, which took place in Indonesia and India after the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian president was absent.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) last year issued an arrest warrant against Putin, which obliges its 124 member countries to arrest him and transfer him to trial in The Hague. Brazil signed and ratified the Rome Statute, which created the ICC. The Russian leader is accused of illegally deporting Ukrainian children, during the war that started in 2022, to Russia, which would have constituted a war crime.
