Syria has fully accepted an Arab League proposal to end the months of crackdowns Syria on Wednesday fully accepted an Arab League plan to end nearly eight months of bloodshed, a League official said, although the UN chief warned that the regime still has to implement the deal as agreed .
A rights group, meanwhile, said more than 30 people died in the latest violence, including 15 members of the Syrian security forces killed in attacks by army deserters.
The agreement announced at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo came amid huge pressure on President Bashar al-Assad\'s regime to end weeks of prevarication and sign up to the deal drawn up by the pan-Arab bloc.
\"The Syrian delegation accepted the Arab League plan without reservations and in its entirety,\" the League official said.
The peace plan agreed to by Syria, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, provides for a \"complete halt to the violence to protect civilians.\"
More than 3,000 people have died in the government\'s bloody crackdown on the unprecedented protests against Assad\'s rule which broke out in mid-March, according to UN figures.
The blueprint also calls for the \"release of people detained as a result of the recent events, the withdrawal of forces from towns and districts where there have been armed clashes, and the granting of access to the Arab League, and Arab and international media.\"
It stipulates that \"the Arab ministerial committee (headed by the prime minister of Qatar) will conduct consultations with the government and the various Syrian opposition parties aimed at launching a national dialogue.\"
The text does not specify a venue for the dialogue, a bone of contention between the government, which insists on Damascus, and the opposition which says it should be outside Syria.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani said \"if Syria does not respect its commitments, the ministerial committee will meet again and take the necessary decisions.\"
Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said the main aim was \"to provide an Arab solution which sends a clear message to the Syrian people of qualitative progress towards halting all forms of violence.\"
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said it was vital that Assad\'s regime now swiftly implement the agreement in full.
\"He must implement the agreement as soon as possible as agreed,\" Ban told a news conference in Tripoli.
\"People have suffered to much for too long and it\'s an unacceptable situation,\" the UN chief said. \"Killing civilians must stop immediately in Syria.\"
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, meanwhile, called for \"stronger condemnation by the United Nations\" of the killing of civilians in Syria.
 Damascus had come under mounting pressure to agree to the Arab roadmap, with Western governments calling for a renewed attempt to push through a sanctions resolution at the UN Security Council.
Ahead of the Cairo meeting, the opposition Syrian National Council urged the League to \"freeze Syria\'s membership, ensure the protection of civilians and recognise the SNC as the representative of the Syrian revolution.\"
It accused the regime of escalating its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in recent days, causing the deaths of dozens of civilians. Such action, it said, was \"Syria\'s response to the Arab League\'s plan.\"
More than 30 people were killed in violence on Wednesday, almost half of them security force personnel  killed in clashes with troops who had mutinied rather than follow orders to shoot on civilians, a human rights group said.
Deserters killed 15 members of the security forces in two operations in the flashpoint central province of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
\"A group of deserters blew up a device as a military van and a vehicle passed by in Al-Madiq area, killing seven soldiers,\" the Britain-based watchdog said.
Eight other security personnel were killed in a similar attack on a convoy carrying security agents and pro-regime militiamen on the road between Qaalet al-Madiq and Sqailbiyeh, it added in a statement received in Nicosia.
The Observatory said the attacks were carried out \"in response to the massacre of 11 workers\" earlier in the day by a pro-regime group in Homs, another province in central Syria which has been a centre of dissent.
The gunmen stormed a factory in the restive province, killing the 11, while security forces shot dead eight civilians in several Homs neighbourhoods, the rights watchdog said.
The Syrian regime has repeatedly said it is fighting \"armed terrorists\" and Assad pledged to carry out reforms but stressed he will not make changes amid chaos.