US State Department: We are willing to talk to Syria if they approach us
So that's it. The isolation is over.
The US says it WILL talk bilaterally at tomorrow's Iraq summit if Syria wants to. It had previously said it wouldn't talk to Syria alone.
It comes just hours after the EU announced it was re-starting its top-level relationship with Syria, after two years of isolation. It is sending its head of Foreign Policy, Javier Solana to Damascus.
