Syria called on Thursday for a full implementation of all UN resolutions, with a clear reference to Israel which is not blamed while having not carried out relative UN resolutions, the official SANA news agency reported.
"Syria respects every resolution of international legitimacy, but at the same time the international community should also follow up and implement all of its resolutions with no selectivity," Syrian Expatriates Minister Buthaina Shaaban said when meeting a British media delegation.
Syria has been under mounting international pressure to withdraw its 14,000 troops from neighboring Lebanon in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1559 passed last September.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Lebanese counterpart Emile Lahoud on Monday announced a two-phase pullout plan, but it still failed to quench dissatisfaction of the West, headed by the United States, which, together with France, was the sponsor of Resolution 1559.
Shaaban said implementing all UN resolutions "will help establish a just and comprehensive peace in the region and it is the same peace that Syria has been calling for."
On Syrian-Lebanese relations, Shaaban said they were deeper than described by the media.
"It's a historic, geographic and blood relation in addition to joint agreements and the fraternity-cooperation-coordination treaty," the minister said.
The official reiterated Syria's rejection to terrorism, criticizing the United States and the West's media for their stance against Syria on this issue.
"Throwing terrorism accusations against the innocent ... really needs a reconsideration, particularly by those who have conscience, intellect and mind," said Shaaban.
The international community has heaped pressure on Syria to withdraw after former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, an architect of Lebanon's post-war revival and an opponent to Syria's influence, was assassinated in a massive bombing last month in central Beirut.
The Lebanese opposition blamed Syria for playing a part in the plot, a charge denied by Damascus.