PARIS, March 7 (Reuters) - The leaders of Chad and Sudan are ready to sign a peace agreement at a meeting in Dakar next week, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said on Friday.

Wade is to host talks between the two neighbouring countries intended to defuse conflict between them and help bring peace to the western Sudanese region of Darfur.

"We will have an agreement in two terms, an agreement in general terms and an implementation agreement," he told reporters after meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris.

He said Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Chadian President Idriss Deby would agree "to stop supporting opponents of the other on his own territory".

The presidents have accused each other of fomenting conflict on their common border and in Darfur, where violence has killed some 200,000 people since 2003.

Wade said the agreement would be signed on March 12, a day before a two-day summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference opens in Dakar. (Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; writing by James Mackenzie; editing by Andrew Roche)

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