Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani (L) speaks during the Arab Parliamentary Union conference in Arbil March 11, 2008. Activities of the 50th APU conference had started earlier on Tuesday in Arbil, capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan Region, where Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and the region's President Massoud Barazani attended the event along with representatives of Arab and Islamic states. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ)