Arab League meets in Baghdad

Leaders have gathered at an Arab League summit in Baghdad for talks on a UN-backed peace plan for Syria. It's the first major international summit to be hosted by Iraq in decades. Syria says it has agreed to a UN-Arab League plan which would see an end to fighting and grant access to humanitarian groups. Syrian opposition groups said they do not trust President Bashar al-Assad will fulfil his obligations under the deal.

"It essential that President Assad put those commitments into immediate effect,” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who attended the summit. “The world is waiting for commitments to be translated into action. The key here is implementation, there is no time to waste."

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