I will do my best to establish peace in Syria: Ahmadinejad

 (MNA) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has attended the annual UN General Assembly meeting in New York, says he will do whatever in his power to bring an end to the 18-month conflict in Syria.

"I will do everything in my power to create stability, peace and understanding in Syria," Ahmadinejad told the Associated Press in an interview published on Wednesday.

Ahmadinejad also proposed forming a new group of 10 or 11 countries to work to end the war in the Arab country.

He said representatives of nations in the Middle East and elsewhere would meet in New York "very soon," to exchange views on Syria.

Earlier this month, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi announced the formation of a four-member contact group with Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

On Saturday, Morsi said he could meet with top officials of the three states of the quartet during the UN General Assembly session in New York this week.

During a meeting in Cairo on September 17, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi proposed that observers from Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia be dispatched to the crisis-hit country.