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TEHRAN - Iran and Syria are proposing a regional conference in Baghdad of Iraq's neighbours, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday.
"We agreed to ask the Iraqi government and Iraq's neighbouring countries to hold a foreign ministers' conference in Baghdad," Mottaki told reporters at a joint press conference with his visiting Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem.
Mottaki did not give details on the agenda.
Iran and its close regional ally Syria are accused by Washington of aiding the insurgency against US-led forces which invaded Iraq in March 2003, a charge vehemently denied by Tehran and Damascus.
Iran insists the violence will end in its western neighbour once foreign forces leave Iraq.
Muallem, for his part, said that Damascus "wants foreign troops to pull out of Iraq with the approval of the Iraqi government within a timetable".

01/22/2007 16:15 GMT