Sweden plans to host a U.N. conference on Iraq at the end of May, the government said Thursday.

The conference will build on the International Compact with Iraq, a sweeping five-year economic and political reform package that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon helped broker.

The Swedish government said Ban and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked it to host the conference.

“We want to be a part of the U.N. efforts to get a better process in place when it comes to the development in Iraq,” Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt told Swedish news agency TT on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania.