President George W. Bush will meet on Monday with a heavyweight bipartisan panel expected to eventually make far-reaching recommendations for ending the war in Iraq.
"On Monday, President Bush will meet with the Iraq Study Group. The vice president (Dick Cheney) and national security adviser Steve Hadley will join him for the meeting," said White House spokesman Tony Snow.
"This is not a presentation of a final report; that is yet to come, on a schedule to be determined by the study group itself," he added.
The group was created by Congress in March and placed under the joint chairmanship of Republican former secretary of state James Baker and Democratic former congressman Lee Hamilton.
It has been working with leading Washington think tanks, including the US Institute of Peace and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and has carried out fact-finding missions to Iraq and other countries in the region.
The group's members are evenly split between Democrats and Republicans and include Sandra Day O'Connor, a former Supreme Court justice; Robert Gates, the former CIA chief nominated to replace Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defence; and William Perry, a former defence secretary.
Other members are Edwin Meese, former US attorney general; businessman Vernon Jordan; Leon Panetta, former White House chief of staff under president Bill Clinton; former Virginia governor and senator Charles Robb; and former Wyoming senator Alan Simpson.