Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc ended Thursday its boycott of the parliament, a spokesman from the bloc told Xinhua.

"The Iraqi Accordance Front decided to end its boycott of the parliament sessions after the other political blocs agreed to our condition that the Front's speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani would preside the parliament sessions," spokesman Salim Abdullah said.

The 44-member bloc of the 275-seat parliament had suspended its participation in the parliament last month after the leading Shiite and Kurdish blocs voted on June 11 to remove Mashhadani, over allegedly ordered his bodyguards to beat a Shiite Member of Parliament.

On Tuesday, Iraqi political bloc of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr also ended its suspension of its membership in the Iraqi parliament.

The move of Sadr's bloc came after the government responded to their demands of protecting the shrines and the formation of a committee to supervise the reconstruction of the two Shiite shrines in Samarra, both were destroyed by repeated attacks.

(Xinhua News Agency July 19, 2007)