TEHRAN (IRNA) - Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said here Wednesday that Iran would study with a positive view Iraq's request for holding a second round of talks with the U.

S. "Iraqi officials have made the request. We have stressed we will examine their request with a positive view after the U.S. responds to the request," Mottaki told IRNA after seeing off Iraqi President Jalal Talabani at Mehrabad Airport The first round of Iran-U.S. talks on Iraq was held on May 28 in Baghdad at ambassadorial level. Iran's Ambassador to Iraq, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, represented Iran and Ryan Crocker acted as U.S. envoy. Based on an agreement reached at the first round of talks, it was agreed the Iraqi officials would invite Tehran and Washington to hold the second round of talks. In an earlier report released by the Foreign Ministry’s Press Department, Talabani told Mottaki that Iran’s positive response to a request by Iraq to hold talks with U.S. showed Tehran’s goodwill. Asked about the five Iranian diplomats detained U.S. forces in Irbil, the minister said, "During today (Wednesday) meeting with Talabani, I seriously called him on to devise strategies to release Iran's consular officials at the earliest." He added, "Talabani briefed us on measures he has taken so far and promised to seriously follow up the case." Mottaki expressed hope the efforts would lead to speedy release of the detained diplomats. "In talks with Talabani, we also discussed the case of Iranian pilgrims who are being kept in Iraqi prisons due to different reasons including problems with their visas or illegal entry. "We provided the Iraqi president with a list of names of the imprisoned pilgrims and called him on to take measures for their immediate release," the minister said. He added Talabani promised to pursue the case. The Iraqi president arrived in Tehran Tuesday afternoon and held talks with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mottaki during his stay in Tehran