ISLAMABAD, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Iranian and U.S. officials will meet in Iraq on May 28 to discuss security in Iraq, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Thursday.

    He told a press conference on the sidelines of the foreign ministers' meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) that Iraq would be the only topic of the Iran-U.S. talks.

    Mottaki said that Iraqi officials would be present at the Iran-U.S. talks to be held at the request of Iraqi leaders. The talks will be at the at the level of ambassador, he added.

    Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari has welcomed the talks, saying both the United States and Iran were major players in his country.

    Iraq is one of the major topics of the OIC foreign ministers' three-day meeting.

    Inaugurating the 34th session of the OIC foreign ministers Tuesday, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf called for halting the carnage and killing in Iraq and proposed a Muslim peace keeping force under the United Nations auspices for the war-torn country if all the warring factions agree to it.

    Musharraf said that foreign interference in Iraq must stop and that its territorial integrity should be respected.

    He said that the idea of Muslim peacekeeping force could be looked at if it would lead to peace and resolution of the crisis.

    He called for a dispute resolution mechanism within the OIC so that the Islamic states could resolve political disputes themselves without any foreign assistance.

    However, Iraq is opposed to the proposal, saying that more foreign troops in the country are not welcome.

    OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglo Wednesday said that a consensus could not be evolved on the new OIC charter, which was surprising.

    He told the press that the new charter was vital for the future of OIC. He said that the proposal of the Islamic countries' peacekeeping force for Iraq could only be feasible when an accord takes place on the new charter.