Cairo  - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will participate in an Arab League summit in Qatar at the end of this month, despite an international warrant for his arrest, Sudan's representative at the Arab League told reporters Wednesday.

"Al-Bashir will continue his tasks as the president of Sudan," Ali Karti, Sudan's representative to the Arab League, told reporters at the Arab Leagues headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday.

The statement came hours after judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague issued an arrest warrant for the Sudanese president on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Judges did not include the charge of genocide, as Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo had requested.

Karti said that Sudan rejected the ICC's decision as an interference in Sudan's internal affairs.

Since Qatar is not a signatory to the Rome Statute on the ICC, it is not obligated to execute the arrest warrant, Sara Darehshori, legal counsel to Human Rights Watch's international justice programme, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Wednesday.

But UN Security Council Resolution 1593, while it requires the government of Sudan and all state parties to the Rome Statute to execute the court's warrant, "urges" states that have not signed the treaty to execute the warrant. (dpa)