DAMASCUS, July 20 (Xinhua) -- The International Criminal Court's(ICC) move against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir amounted to a "direct interference" in Sudan's internal affairs, a senior Sudanese diplomat said here on Sunday.

    Sudan's ambassador in Damascus Abdul Rahman Dirar told a press conference that the ICC's chief prosecutor's decision against his President was "a dangerous unprecedented act in international relations and a decision of political nature", according to the official SANA news agency.

    Sudan had been seeking to confront the move through finding a political solution to the problem in Darfur as soon as possible in cooperation with all of the political parties in Sudan and through diplomatic moves to clarify his country's point of view and disclose the ICC's illegal basis, Dirar claimed.

    He criticized the double-standard policies pursued by the international community when dealing with the issues in the region, citing their silence over Israeli inhuman exercises against the Palestinians and the killings and destruction in Iraq caused by the American occupation.

    The Sudanese Ambassador also underlined Arab solidarity and its role in facing the challenges.

    Last Monday, the Hague-based ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo formally requested an arrest warrant against al-Bashir for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the western Sudanese region of Darfur.

    It was the first time that the ICC charges a sitting head of state, a move decried by Khartoum as undermining peace efforts in the region.

    So far, Sudan, which is not a member of the ICC, has maintained the ICC has no jurisdiction over its territory and warned that UN peacekeeping work in its Darfur region would suffer if al-Bashir were to be indicted for war crimes and arrested by the ICC.