Cairo, May 10: Iraqi leaders want Arab nations to send troops to patrol Iraq, but support for the idea is so sparse in the region that it won't make a formal request, Iraq's foreign minister said at a gathering of Arab foreign ministers. "We presented it as a question: `is there any possibility to send Arab peacekeeping forces, though not from countries neighboring Iraq?'" Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said. "The response was not encouraging, and the subject was not followed UP." He added, however, that Iraqis remain interested in troops from the region - although not from neighbours like Turkey because of opposition from Iraqi Kurds. "As an idea, yes ... We need the support," he said. Zebari appealed for support for his country's US-appointed interim government from the gathered foreign ministers, urging the ministers to stick to commitments made before a thwarted march summit to give qualified backing to the government and to plans for the United States to transfer sovereignty to Iraq on June 30. Bureau Report