Mauro Vieira has said that the Brazilian government will not take “any initiative” to arrest the Russian leader, who is subject to an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, if he visits the country next year.
Mauro Vieira, Brazilian Foreign Minister, said that he would be “very happy” if Vladimir Putin decided to visit the country in November 2024, on the occasion of the G20 summit.
“If (Putin) wants to attend, we will be very happy for him to attend the meetings in Brazil,” Vieira said. For BBC News Brazil This Wednesday.
Putin's potential visit to Brazil will be controversial, because the country is a member of the International Criminal Court, the institution that issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president in March this year for alleged crimes during the invasion of Ukraine.
However, Mauro Vieira stated that Brazil would not detain the Russian leader. “We will not take any initiative to achieve this,” the Brazilian government official stressed, downplaying the importance of any potential non-compliance with the laws of the International Criminal Court.
“Are you obligated to comply? No. There has to be a system. Otherwise it will be like the NPT, which is about non-proliferation and disarmament and only thinks about disarmament, and no one cares about proliferation. Anyway”… No , This is the situation. Every circumstance is different,” said the Brazilian minister.
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