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.