President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir will take part in the 12th Ordinary session of the conference of leaders and heads of state of Sahel-Saharan States which will convene in the Chadian capital next week, a diplomatic source said.
If the visit goes as planned, this will be the first time Bashir sets foot in a country that is a signatory to the Rome Statute which is the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Sudan tribune website reported.
Today, the Sudanese foreign minister Ali Karti told the London based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that his boss can travel anywhere and that the ICC cannot hamper his travel.
Chad was one of the few countries to oppose a resolution adopted by the African Union (AU) under Libyan pressure last year instructing its members not to cooperate in apprehending president Bashir even if they are ICC members.
However, following normalization of ties with Sudan this year, the Chadian president Idriss Deby said he invited his Sudanese counterpart to visit and would guarantee his safety despite the outstanding arrest warrant.
President Deby met this week with the prosecutor of ICC Luis Moreno-Ocampo in Paris though it is not clear if the planned visit by president Bashir to Ndjamena was discussed.