Iraq decided to choose the date of its independence and salvation from the British mandate on October 3, 1932, as a national day for the country to be celebrated annually.
In its weekly meeting yesterday evening, headed by Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the Iraqi government requested from the legal department in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers to prepare a special bill on the National Day of the Republic of Iraq that is separate and independent from the law on official holidays, and to refer the draft law on the National Day of the Republic of Iraq to the House of Representatives.
The first choice for this day was in February of 2008, but parliament has not passed a law to do so.
The controversy erupted after the fall of the former Iraqi regime, which was celebrating its handover of power in the July 17, 1968 coup as a national day.
Initially, the Governing Council, which took power after the US invasion of the country in 2003, decided on the day of the fall of the late President Saddam Hussein's regime, on April 9, as a national day for Iraq, but objections led to the cancellation of the celebration of this day.
Iraq joined the "League of Nations" as an independent country on September 3, 1932.