DOHA, Qatar - A proposed Arab League plan to end months of bloodshed in Syria includes a demand to withdraw tanks from the streets, the head of the pan-Arab group Nabil al-Arabi said on Monday.

"The Arab proposal to Syria calls for withdrawing tanks and all military vehicles to bring an immediate end to the violence and give assurances to the Syrian street," Arabi said in the Qatari capital Doha.

The Arab League was on Monday awaiting a response from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to its plan which, Arabi said, also calls for a dialogue to take place in Cairo between Syrian officials and opposition figures.