Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki has said that Iraq rejects militarizing any of the conflicting parties in Syria and calls for a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis, his office said in a statement on Tuesday.

"The prime minister stressed his opposition to violence and the use of force as a means to resolve the crisis (in Syria), and reiterated his rejection of attempts to bring weapons to Syria from any party whatsoever," the statement quoted Maliki as saying during a phone call with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden late on Monday.

Maliki also confirmed that his country has tightened security measures on the Iraqi-Syrian border in order to help decrease bloodshed in Syria, the statement said.

For his part, Biden said that the United States also rejects arming any of the parties in Syria, the statement said without elaborating.

Maliki, as the commander in chief of the Iraqi armed forces, has frequently chaired meetings with his top security officials to discuss the security situation on Iraq's nearly 600-km-long border with Syria.

He also formed a committee with a number of senior officials to monitor the border and submit a comprehensive assessment to bolster the security measures that would prevent illegal traffic between the two countries.

The security measures came as a response to reports that some weapons and insurgents in Syria apparently came from Iraq.

Since the early stages of the Syrian crisis, Iraq refused to support punitive measures by the Arab League against Syria for the Syrian government's alleged crackdown on the opposition.

Iraqi officials said earlier that the Iraqi government hopes to hammer out a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis that may preserve the aspirations of Syrian people for reforms without external interference and sectarianism.

Iraq's Shiite-dominated government has close ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.