Emirati minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, attends the opening session of the first Arab summit to be held in Iraq in 22 years on March 29, 2012 in the former Republican Palace in Baghdad, with the year-long crisis in Syria in the spotlight. Among those attending were nine Arab leaders, including Kuwait's emir, who was on the first visit to Iraq by a Kuwaiti head of state since the 1990 Iraqi invasion of that country.