The Syrian government has called for an urgent Arab summit to discuss the deepening political unrest in the country.
The Arab League on Saturday voted to suspend Syria over its bloody crackdown on the country's eight-month-old uprising.
An official statement aired on state-run television Sunday said Syria would welcome a visit by Arab League officials before Wednesday, when the League suspension is to take effect.
The League vote was a sharp rebuke to a regime that prides itself as a bastion of Arab nationalism, but it was unlikely to immediately end a wave of violence that the U.N. estimates has killed more than 3,500 people since mid-March.