'If Putin decides to go to Brazil, it will be the courts who decide whether or not he will be arrested, not me,' Lula told a news conference.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva backed off a pledge that Russian leader Vladimir Putin would be safe to travel to next year’s Group of 20 summit in Brazil without fear of arrest, saying that issue is up to his country’s judiciary. “If Putin decides to go to Brazil, it will be the courts who decide whether or not he will be arrested, not me,” Lula told a news conference in New Delhi on Monday following this year’s G-20 summit.
Lula’s comments appeared to backtrack from assurances he’d given just over a day earlier. “I believe that Putin can easily go to Brazil,” Lula said in a video interview with Indian news platform Firstpost late Saturday. “What I can tell you is that if I am president of Brazil and he goes to Brazil, there is no way he will be arrested.” At the news conference Monday, Lula said he would “study” the ICC issue.
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