Syria on Tuesday called for talks with the United States to cover all areas of contention in the Middle East, a state newspaper has said.
"Syria wants to engage in a dialogue with the United States concerning all issues: Palestine, the Golan Heights, Iraq, Lebanon as well as anything else to do with Arab countries," an editorial in the official Ath-Thawra said Tuesday. "Syria insists on a serious and profound dialogue on all subjects without exception," it added.
"If the United States was serious... it would have asked to discuss all the region's problems with a view to solving them, as all the questions are inter-linked," the paper said. "By raising the matter of Iraqis in Syria, the United States wants only to discuss the results and not the cause," which is the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Ath-Thawra said.
