An Iraqi police officer walks among people visiting Baghdad's al-Zawra park during an exhibition by flower merchants from several Middle Eastern and European countries as well as India on April 15, 2009. Iraq is holding its first-ever international flower festival with the hope of showing the world that peace is blossoming after the winter of a long war.

The Iraqi presidential emblem designed with flowers appears at Baghdad's al-Zawrak park during an exhibition by flower merchants from several Middle Eastern and European countries as well as India on April 15, 2009. Iraq is holding its first-ever international flower festival with the hope of showing the world that peace is blossoming after the winter of a long war.
