UNITED NATIONS ( CNN ) -- Sudan has asked for an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers ahead of the expected indictment of the country 's president for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur , according to reports . The U.N. estimates 2.5 million have been forced from their homes in Darfur . CNN revealed Friday that International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has scheduled a news conference Monday , just after he is expected to file the warrant with the court . If the warrant is issued it would make Omar Hassan al-Bashir the first sitting president to be indicted by the ICC for genocide . Arab League spokesman Abdel Aleem el-Abyad told The Associated Press Saturday that Arab League chief Amr Moussa , who is currently in Paris , was making phone calls to Arab foreign ministers to try to schedule a meeting . The Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations told CNN Friday that the ICC had indicated to Sudanese officials that al-Bashir may be charged over the five-year campaign of violence in the country 's Darfur region . Watch a tour of Darfur 's deserted Northern Corridor » . `` We have been hearing that this prosecutor is going to announce some names , possibly the leadership of the country , that will be indicted , '' said Adbalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad . `` It is a criminal move that should be resisted by all . '' Such an indictment , Mohamad said , would be a destabilizing move that would `` take us back to square one . '' Sudan , he said , is `` condemning it in the strongest possible terms '' and urged the international community to do likewise . `` We will resist it by all possible legal means , '' he said . Watch actress and Darfur activist Mia Farrow speak on the issue » . The prosecutor said in a progress report last month to the Security Council that Sudan 's `` whole state apparatus '' had been mobilized `` to plan , commit , and cover up crimes '' in Darfur . Watch how some are concerned by the move » . `` For the last five years , the whole Darfur area has been a crime scene , '' Moreno-Ocampo said last month . The Darfur conflict began in 2003 when Darfurians rebelled against the central government over its alleged favoritism to Arabs over Africans . The government in Khartoum fought back allegedly unleashing the janjaweed militia to quell the uprising -- a claim the government denies . The authorities armed and cooperated with Arab militias that went from village to village in Darfur , killing , torturing and raping residents there , according to the United Nations , western governments and human rights organizations . Militias targeted civilian members of the tribes from which the African rebels draw strength . Human rights groups blame the janjaweed for most atrocities , including the use of rape as a weapon of war . Meanwhile , the chief U.N. humanitarian coordinator said aid workers are preparing for the effects of an indictment . `` We are taking precautions to make sure that people are aware of the risks and what we need to maintain our operations at the same time , '' said John Holmes . `` We 're taking sensible precautions hoping nothing will happen , because humanitarian aid should continue whatever the political situation , whatever the political arguments . '' The U.N. estimates that some 300,000 people have died in the conflict and more than 2.5 million have been forced from their homes since 2003 . Sudanese officials say only 10,000 have died in the fighting and have rejected claims from the U.S. and others that genocide is taking place . Witnesses who spoke to CNN Correspondent Nic Robertson in May said that just four months ago , government airplanes and helicopters attacked defenseless civilians in their Darfur villages . They said the government struck in coordination with militiamen riding horses and camels -- a classic pattern that has unfolded around Darfur . More than 115 people were killed in that attack , they said , and nearly 58,000 people fled . In 2005 , the Security Council cleared the way for possible Darfur war crime prosecutions by the ICC , a permanent tribunal set up to handle cases related to genocide , crimes against humanity and war crimes . The court is based on a treaty signed by 106 nations -- excluding Sudan . Once the court indicts someone , authorities in that person 's native country -- or the country in which the indicted person is located -- have the power to detain the indicted person for trial at the Hague . The ICC has already indicted two men for Darfur crimes -- one a government official and the other a militia leader . The cases are against Ali Kushayb , a militia leader , and Ahmad Harun , former minister of state for the interior in Sudan , who is now in charge of humanitarian affairs for the Sudanese government . Both face charges accusing them of murder , rape , forced displacement and other offenses in Darfur . An arrest warrant for Harun charges that he was involved in the murder , rape , torture and forced displacement of civilians . The court also says he encouraged such illegal acts in public speeches during his tenure as minister of state for the interior . The criminal court says Kushayb led several thousand militia members and personally participated in attacks against civilians . An arrest warrant outlines numerous cases of murder , rape and inhumane acts .
International Criminal Court may seek arrest of Sudan 's president . Chief prosecutor expected to file for arrest warrant Monday . Comment: