Sudan has agreed to hand ousted former President Omar al-Bashir and others to the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur, a member of Khartoum's ruling body said Tuesday.

The Hague-based ICC has charged Bashir with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role during a devastating conflict from 2003. Bashir has denied the charges. The court has also indicted three of his former aides, Ahmed Haroon, Abdulrahim Mohamed Hussain and Ali Kushied.

"Those who have been indicted by the ICC, they have to go there," Mohamed Hassan Al-Taishay, a member of the ruling sovereign council, said in a statement.

"One of them is Al-Bashir and (there are) three others," he later told journalists in the South Sudanese capital of Juba, where a government delegation was meeting rebel groups from Darfur.

Taishay said the Juba talks, still ongoing, focused on justice and reconciliation in Darfur, where the UN says about 300,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since the conflict erupted.

Taishay said they had agreed on several mechanisms for achieving peace in Darfur, including the establishment of a special court to investigate crimes in the region.

The conflict in Darfur, the size of France, erupted when ethnic minority African rebels took up arms against Bashir's then Arab-dominated government, accusing it of marginalizing the region economically and politically.

"We cannot achieve justice unless we treat the suffering of the victims because this is a truth that we can't escape from," Taishay said.

Bashir was ousted by the army in a palace coup last April after months of protests against his iron-fisted rule of three decades.

He was arrested following his ouster and has since been sentenced to two years in a detention center on corruption charges.

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(With input from AFP)