LONDON (Reuters) - Pop star George Michael vowed Thursday to bare his soul to Britain's tabloids if they helped him promote an initiative to combat world poverty and refocus public attention on the plight of Kosovo's refugees.

Promoting ``Netaid'' concerts to be held next month to raise money for the poor, Michael promised to discuss a $10 million lawsuit linked to his arrest last year for lewd conduct in a public toilet if the media accepted his challenge.

``I'd like to make a deal with the major tabloids in this country if I can, here on the spot,'' Michael told a news conference.

``If we get sufficient and respectable and compassionate coverage of today's conference ... I will personally speak to the editor of each of the tabloid newspapers tomorrow on the phone about anything they like.''

Michael, who is due to perform alongside pop artists like David Bowie, Bono of U2 and Robbie Williams in a NetAid concert at Wembley Stadium in London Oct. 9, urged Britons not to forget Kosovo's refugees.

``The men, women and children of Kosovo still desperately need our help,'' Michael said.

``There are hundreds of thousands of people who have returned to Kosovo but have returned to virtually nothing,'' he said. The proceeds of NetAid concerts in London, New York and Geneva -- to be held simultaneously -- are to be split between refugees in Kosovo and Sudan.

The concerts will be Webcast on the NetAid Web site (www.netaid.org), which is a joint venture between the United Nations Development Program and Cisco Systems.

Michael, who found fame with pop band Wham! in the 1980s and is now one of the Britain's top-selling solo artists, promised the tabloids he had ``lots to say.''

The singer is being sued Marcelo Rodriguez, the Beverly Hills policeman who arrested him in a public toilet last April for performing a ``lewd act upon himself.'' Rodriguez argues in his $10 million suit that he has suffered humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress.

He says the singer slandered him in a pop video for the song ``Outside,'' written after the incident and portraying gay policemen kissing. Michael claims Rodriguez tried to entrap him by waving his genitals in front of him and soliciting casual sex.