Since 2023, an international arrest warrant weighs on the Russian president and, given the lack of certainty of the Government of Lula da Silva, he chose not to attend the economic bloc meeting.
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, confirmed that he will not travel to The BRICS Summitto be held in Janeiro River July 6 and 7. The president will participate in the meeting of the Block of Emerging Economies through a videoconference, while in his place the Minister of Foreign Affairs will attend, Sergei Lavrov.
As explained by the Kremlin foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakovthe decision of the Russian president is due to the absence of a “clear position” by the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva government About the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (TPI) against Putin.
Being one of the 123 signing countries of the Rome StatuteBrazil would have the obligation to comply with this arrest warrant if Putin came to step on Brazilian soil.
The TPI arrest warrant against the president was issued in March 2023 and accuses Putin of alleged war crimesspecifically by the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children from areas occupied by the Russian forces to the territory of the Russian Federation.
From Moscow they dismissed the order and do not recognize the Legitimacy of TPIsince they never signed the constitutive treaty of the court based in Hague.
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It is not the first time that Vladimir Putin chooses not to attend a BRICS meeting
This is not the first time that Putin faces this situation, since in 2023 He chose not to attend the Brics Summit in South Africaanother country that is part of the TPI and that, at that time, faced a similar legal dilemma.
While the order lacks direct effects within Russia itself, it limits its president’s ability to travel to more than a hundred countries without risk of being arrested.
In the arrest order, it was pointed out that There are “reasonable reasons” to believe that Putin has individual criminal responsibility, either for having committed crimes directly or for not having controlled those who perpetrated them.
As reported in the accusations, Ukrainian minors were illegally transferred in several contexts, including the forced separation of their parents. To date, the Ukrainian authorities They have managed to recover 307 childrenof a total of at least 16,000 identified.
Source: Ambito
