Ghana holds the view that the best form of support for the Interna­tional Criminal Court (ICC) is by African nations developing sovereign legal systems to prevent intervention of ICC, Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Attorney-Gen­eral and Minister of Justice, had said.

He said when democracy reigns and is practised in its true form with the citizens feeling a sense of fulfilment of the entitle­ments of citizenship - free expression, secu­rity, adherence to constitutionally stipulated terms for governments without an attempt to manipulate same - concerns about the commission of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and impunity in general would be non-existent.

Mr Dame was speaking on Monday, at the Annual Conference of States Parties to the International Criminal Court held in The Hague, Netherlands.

The Attorney-General who led a del­egation including Ghana's Ambassador to Netherlands, Francis Danti Kotia, and Deputy Head of Mission Yaowi Senalor told member states that the practice of democ­racy in Africa enjoins the establishment of sound systems of justice and the creation of facilities for the investigation and trial of cases of interest to the ICC.