The secretary-general of Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) had talks with Sudanese authorities in Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Saturday.

OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was received by Sudanese President Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir and the meeting lasted for more than one hour.

OIC condemned the warrnt arrest decision of International Crime Court (OIC) against Bashir, with Ihsanoglu saying that the warrant might negatively affect efforts to solve the crisis in Darfur and could threaten stability in Sudan and the whole region.

OIC said Ihsanoglu rejected the kind of selectivity and double standards applied by the international community in dealing with issues of crimes against humanity and war crimes which directly affects the credibility of the international legal system.

The Secretary General once more appealed to the UN Security Council to suspend the move by the ICC in the interest of the ongoing peace efforts in the Sudan.

The the International Criminal Court, ICC has no powers of arrest and relies on national police forces to hand suspects over.

China, a major investor in Sudan's oil which has sent peacekeepers to Darfur, urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to heed calls from African and Arab countries and suspend the case against Bashir.

Ihsanoglu also had a meeting with Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor Kuol.

Ihsanoglu is expected to hold talks in Cairo and Gaza.

The UN says that up to 300,000 have been killed in Darfur, where the UN is running one of the world's largest humanitarian missions, while Khartoum says that 10,000 have died.

A further 2.7 million people are estimated to have been uprooted by the conflict, which began when mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms against the government in 2003.

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