REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PARIS -- France is expecting about ten to fifteen nations to take part in the international conference for peace and security in Iraq being held in the French capital on Monday, Foreign Ministry sources said.

But no list of participants has yet been published although a number of Gulf countries are attending.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Romain Nadal confirmed here that the conference will be at Ministerial level and it will be opened by French President Francois Hollande and President Fuad Massoum of Iraq.

The two presidents were already meeting in Baghdad on Friday to put the final touches to preparations for the conference which aims to get a coherent and robust response to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) radicals who have taken control of parts of Syria and Iraq and are brutally repressing all opposition and also minority populations.

Sources here who requested anonymity said that the conference would not solely be seeking to define a military response to ISIL, but also a political and humanitarian response, which will involve large amounts of finance for this enterprise and also need ongoing reforms in Iraq.

Nadal, for his part, said that the Iraqi issue would be discussed in the UN Security Council on September 19 at a time when the UNSC will be under US Presidency.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will travel to New York for that session, the Foreign Ministry said here.

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