The bipartisan Iraq Study Group reviewing the Bush administration's strategies on Iraq will release its report on Dec. 6, U.S. media reported Wednesday.

The commission would make its recommendations in the report for strategy changes designed to halt Iraq's escalating violence.

President George W. Bush and lawmakers were likely to be briefed on recommendations before the public release of the report.

The 10-member commission, which was created in March at the suggestion of several members of Congress, favored an aggressive regional diplomatic initiative that includes direct talks with Iran and Syria but sets no timetables for a military withdrawal, according to a report published by The New York Times Monday.

The commission, headed by former secretary of state James A. Baker III, a Republican, and Lee Hamilton, a Democratic former congressman, was divided on whether to include a declaration that within a specified period of time a significant number of American troops should be withdrawn from Iraq, news reports said.

The panel might link American withdrawal to the performance of the Iraqi military.

Earlier this month, the commission met with Bush and members of his foreign policy team, including the vice president, the president's national security adviser, secretaries of the state and defense departments, and the national intelligence chief and the CIA chief, as part of its final round of interviews.

The group also interviewed British Prime Minister Tony Blair by videoconference this month, for its final report to Bush and Congress in December.

Source: Xinhua