We, the people of Mesopotamia, the homeland of the apostles and prophets, resting place of the
virtuous imams, cradle of civilization, crafters of writing, and home of numeration. Upon our
land the first law made by man was passed, and the oldest pact of just governance was inscribed,
and upon our soil the saints and companions of the Prophet prayed, philosophers and scientists
theorized, and writers and poets excelled;
Acknowledging God’s right over us, and in fulfillment of the call of our homeland and citizens,
and in a response to the call of our religious and national leaderships and the determination of
our great authorities and of our leaders and politicians, and in the midst of international support
from our friends and those who love us, marched for the first time in our history towards the
ballot boxes by the millions, men and women, young and old, on the 12th of August 2014,
invoking the pains of sectarian oppression inflicted by the autocratic clique and inspired by the
tragedies of Iraq’s martyrs, Shiite and Sunni, Arabs and Kurds and Turkmen and from all other
components of the people, and recollecting the darkness of the ravage of the holy cities and the
South in the Sha’abaniyya uprising and burnt by the flames of grief of the mass graves, the
marshes, Al-Dujail and others and articulating the sufferings of racial oppression in the
massacres of Halabcha, Barzan, Anfal and the Fayli Kurds and inspired by the ordeals of the
Turkmen in Bashir and the sufferings of the people of the western region, as is the case in the
remaining areas of Iraq where the people suffered from the liquidation of their leaders, symbols,
and Sheiks and from the displacement of their skilled individuals and from drying out of its
cultural and intellectual wells, so we sought hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder to create our
new Iraq, the Iraq of the future, free from sectarianism, racism, complex of regional attachment,
discrimination, and exclusion.
Accusations of being infidels, and terrorism did not stop us from marching forward to build a
nation of law. Sectarianism and racism have not stopped us from marching together to
strengthen our national unity, following the path of peaceful transfer of power, adopting the
course of just distribution of resources, and providing equal opportunity for all.
We, the people of the Republic of New Iraq, who have just risen from our stumble, and who are looking with confidence to the future through a republican, federal, democratic, pluralistic system, have
resolved with the determination of our men, women, elderly, and youth to respect the rule of law,
to establish justice and equality, to cast aside the politics of aggression, to pay attention to
women and their rights, the elderly and their concerns, and children and their affairs, to spread
the culture of diversity, and to defuse terrorism.
We, the people of New Iraq, of all components and across the spectrum, have taken upon ourselves to
decide freely and by choice to unite our future, to take lessons from yesterday for tomorrow, and
to enact this permanent declaration of Independence, through the values and ideals of the heavenly messages and the findings of science and man’s civilization. The adherence to this declaration preserves for Iraq its free union of people, of land, and of sovereignty, in adherence to internationa laws, and according to the concept of good neighborliness.
Democracy, Freedom, Pluralism, Secularism.
Long live the People of Mesopotamia
Long live the Republic of New Iraq
Signed
Prime Minister Vian Dakhil