Bashir, in a speech to a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation in Khartoum on Thursday, did not mention the ICC by name but complained of a "vicious campaign" against Sudan.
"My country has been subjected to an unfair and ill-intentioned campaign from some quarters that are bent on exploiting the crisis in Darfur to serve their agendas and designs," he said in Khartoum.
In a closed-door question-and-answer session with the council, Bashir said Sudan would cooperate with the ICC "over his dead body", a source inside the meeting said afterwards.
French ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert told reporters after the meeting that Paris might back "further steps" if Sudan refused to cooperate with the ICC.
UN Darfur special envoy Jan Eliasson and AU envoy Salim Ahmed Salim said the Darfur conflict could escalate if a peace deal between the Khartoum government and the South collapsed.
"In the absence of realistic negotiations (on Darfur) within a very short period of time on substantive issues, we have to make sure now that this conflict does not escalate. It is dangerous enough," Eliasson told reporters in Geneva.
Sudan's 2005 peace agreement ended a two-decade civil war between the Khartoum government in the mainly Muslim North and rebels in the largely Christian South.
British U.N. ambassador John Sawers told reporters the council raised in the meeting with Bashir the need to improve access by aid workers to hungry people in Darfur as well as tension between the north and south after clashes in the oil-rich Abyei region.
Sudan has been under pressure to allow quicker deployment of the peacekeeping force, which is to reach 26,000 troops and police at full strength. There are still only around 9,000 peacekeepers in Darfur, a region roughly the size of France.
On Thursday, the envoys visited North Darfur state, where the peacekeepers are based, met local elders and spoke with refugees at a camp for internally displaced people.
Staff from the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said they might have to cut rations for displaced people for the second time in two months because of worsening insecurity. The WFP halved deliveries of emergency food from May.
Fatima, a 35-year-old mother of eight children who has been at Zamzam Camp for four years, held up a sign calling for an end to the war. Some people in the camp begged reporters for food.
