Arab League leaders meeting in Iraq have called on the Syrian government to implement a UN-backed peace plan "immediately and completely", as they met for a summit in the capital Baghdad.<br /><br />Nine heads of state and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were among those attending the opening of the summit in the former Republican Palace on Thursday, the first such meeting in Iraq for 22 years.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Baghdad.
