UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- Iran’s foreign minister is among the officials expected to attend next week’s ministerial meeting of the Iraq Compact Annual Review, UN officials said on Friday.

The talks in Stockholm will focus on assessing progress in implementing a peace and development plan to help rebuild Iraq more than five years after the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
UN officials told Reuters that Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki is among participants who have confirmed that they will attend. Syria, which is sending its envoy to Sweden, will be represented at a much lower level.
The United Nations, which has been slowly rebuilding its presence in Iraq, is organizing the meeting in cooperation with the government of Sweden, which is hosting it. The International Compact with Iraq was launched a year ago in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt.