An official source of the Syrian Foreign Ministry described on Thursday a report of a U.S. bipartisan group on policy shift in Iraq as positive, the state- run SANA news agency reported.

The source said that the report was objective in its dealing with the role of Iraq's neighbors to help achieve security and stability in the war-torn country.

The source added that the Syrian priority was to restore the whole occupied Golan Heights which was occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War.

The U.S. Iraq Study Group, led by former Secretary of State James Baker, issued on Wednesday a highly-anticipated report that recommends major changes in the Bush administration's Iraq policy, which it says is "not working."

The report said that Washington should begin to withdraw forces from combat and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent "a slide toward chaos" in Iraq, where sectarian violence kills scores of people every day.

The report, however, did not set a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

Source: Xinhua