The policy of positive neutrality under the government of Abdul Karim Qasim A historical study in light of Iraqi documents""

Abstract

There has been a major change in the objectives of foreign policy in Iraq since the revolution of the fourteenth of July 1958 . After foreign policy in the pre-revolution has set goals for it that made Iraq take a biased path towards the west, then the revolution changed this policy and directed it towards another path . Despite the obstacles and shocks that appeared in her way .

And through the principle of positive neutrality that the govement of Abdul-karim Qasim believed in order to preserve the independence of Iraq and try to keep it away from the eastern and western blocs.

Iraq became at  the forefront of countries seeking to belong to the Non-Aligned Move ment calling for peace, which included Egypt, India, Yugoslavia and other countries, numbering 127 countries. Perhaps the most important political and military figures who contributed to the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement are Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, and Josip Broz Tito, President of the Republic of Yugoslavia, then Iraq joined the movement during the government of leader Abdul Karim Qasim, Prime Minister of Iraq after 1958.

The first goal of the revolution was to change the state system from a monarchy to a republican system. Then it enacted laws and decisions through which oil companies were nationalized under Resolution No. (80) of 1958. And to liberate the Iraqi peasant from the dominance of feudalism, through the issuance of the Agrarian Reform Law No. (30) on July 30, 1958, which liberated the peasant from the injustice of feudalism, in addition to achieving other national projects represented in building housing and bridges, and caring for education, health... and other national projects.