The Arab League has agreed with President Bashar al-Assad on a series of measures to end months of bloodshed in Syria which will be presented to an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo, said the League head on Saturday after a visit to Damascus.

Nabil Elaraby also told journalists in Cairo upon his return from Damascus that he had urged the Syrian president to 'speed up reform plans through a timetable that will make every Syrian citizen feel that he has moved to a new stage.'-Reuters