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.