DUBAI, June 5 (Reuters) - United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan arrived in Iraq on Thursday in the first visit by a Gulf Arab foreign minister since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, a UAE source said.

The United States has been pressing Sunni Arab governments to shore up the Baghdad government by forgiving debts and establishing high-level diplomatic representation in Baghdad.

The UAE withdrew its top envoy from Iraq in May 2006 after one of its diplomats was kidnapped and held for nearly two weeks by Islamist militants. It has maintained only low level representation in Iraq since.

(Reporting by Lin Noueihed, Editing by Andrew Marshall)

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