DAMASCUS (AKI) - The European Union supports Syria in its endeavors to regain the Golan Heights from Israel, the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has stated.

"We would like to work as much as possible to see your country Syria recuperate the territory taken in 1967," Javier Solana told a joint news conference with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem after meeting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday.

Syria has made it clear that its cooperation to help end violence in Iraq would be tied to Western - especially U.S. - support for its peaceful campaign to regain the Golan Heights, which Israel conquered during the Six Day War four decades ago.

Solana also discussed the Lebanese crisis with Syrian leaders Wednesday on what was the first high-level visit by an EU official to Syria in more than two years.

Solana came to Syria on the final stop of a three-nation tour that attempted to mediate an end to the crisis in Lebanon, where the Hezbollah-led opposition has staged three months of mass protests in a bid to topple the government. Nine people have been killed in street battles between government and opposition supporters.

A UN investigative panel has implicated Syrian security officials in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

Solana visited Saudi Arabia on Tuesday where he discussed Lebanon with the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, in Riyadh.