Beirut: Algeria's Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci said on Tuesday an Arab League committee charged with seeking an end to the violence in Syria had reached agreement with Syrian authorities, Al Arabiya television said.

Al Arabiya gave no further details and Syrian officials contacted by telephone had no immediate comment on the report.

Arab League ministers met Syrian officials in Qatar on Sunday to seek a way to end bloodshed in Syria, President Bashar Al Assad has staged a military crackdown seven months of pro-democracy protests against his 11-year rule.

Arab diplomats said on Monday the plan called on Syria to release immediately prisoners held since February, withdraw security forces from the streets, permit deployment of Arab League monitors and start a dialogue with the opposition.

Qatari Prime Minister Shaikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani, whose country heads the committee, also said Al Assad must launch serious reforms if Syria was to avoid further violence.

The United Nations says more than 3,000 people have been killed in the crackdown in Syria. The government says armed groups have killed 1,100 members of the security forces.