Lula's u-turn on Putin arrest warrant waiver ahead of Rio's 2024 G20 summit

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Brazil's president has qualified his words a day after claiming an International Criminal Court arrest warrant would be ignored if the Russian president visited Rio for the G20 summit in 2024.

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00:00 Less than 24 hours after issuing an arrest-free welcome to Rio signal to Vladimir Putin, Brazil's

00:07 President Lula has withdrawn his assurance that his Russian counterpart's liberty wouldn't

00:12 be in jeopardy if he attended the G20 summit there next year.

00:29 Lula has hinted that the matter could affect his country's relationship with the International

00:33 Criminal Court.

00:40 The Russian President's missed several international summits since March, when the ICC issued its

00:54 arrest warrant for deporting Ukrainian children to Russia.

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