The government takes a diplomatic vision towards Iraq’s leadership in 2025
Mawazine News – Baghdad
The Iraqi government submitted a request to host the Arab Summit for 2025, being the fourth summit to be hosted by Baghdad after 1979, 1990, and 2012.
“The isolation suffered by Iraq during the previous regime, and the war on terrorism, did not provide the opportunity to rehabilitate the basic infrastructure of the state, allowing the hosting of important and large regional and global events,” said the government spokesman on behalf of Al-Awadi.
The academic and political researcher Abdul Azizi Al-Issawi, in an interview with Al-Sabah, said that “internal and external messages may be sent by the Arab summit if they are held in Baghdad.”
Al-Issawi said: “Hosting the Arab summit in Baghdad will have the effect of sending more than one message, including a foreign one that Iraq is no longer affected by regional events, but has begun since 2020 to play an influential and mediator role and receives Arab leaders and others,” adding that “Iraq wants to convey a message that what happened from a transition in diplomacy is an approach that will continue with breaking the isolation of previous years.”
He added that “increasing the diplomatic influence of any country will increase its economic, sports, social and other activities.”
Al-Issawi continued that “the Arab summit is the most important summit to be hosted by Iraq, and in 2012 the previous Baghdad summit was held in critical security conditions,” noting that “Iraq has achieved successes and political stability that will enable it to invest it externally.”
Al-Issawi touched on the internal factor by saying: “The government wants to convince citizens that it is not only service, and that its role is not local,” noting that “the Arab summit will give Iraq a greater role in conjunction with the decline of the role of regional and Arab countries that were preoccupied with an internal and external conflict, and Iraq today is better than yesterday’s Iraq, after it put regional and Arab countries in an embarrassment imposed by the war in Gaza.”
Meanwhile, the political adviser to Prime Minister Fadi Al-Shammari said in a statement followed by Mawazine News that “the request to host the next Arab summit reflects Iraq’s desire to contribute effectively to Arab affairs and enhance its role in promoting cooperation and achieving development.”
Al-Shammari stated that “what has achieved the security stability witnessed by Iraq is a key factor to attract international and regional summits.”
While the academic and researcher in political affairs, Haidar Ali, saw that “Iraqi diplomacy establishes a new stage, which is to change the Iraqi political discourse, send messages of reassurance to the Arab environment, and disclose a real Iraqi desire to link to interests and obtain a measure of empowerment in performance.”
Ali stressed “the role of productive diplomacy, one of whose outputs is the strength of the pillars of the foreign policy of the state, after which it is effective tools,” pointing out that “Baghdad’s hosting of the Arab summit is one of the data on the success of the Iraqi diplomatic track and an addition that can be a quality that can be calculated for the strategy of Iraqi diplomacy that depends on continuity and the ability to choose between alternatives.”
He continued that “the summit in Baghdad may be their input added to the elements of Iraq’s strength and effectiveness in its Arab regional environment. It has several indicators, perhaps the most prominent of which is the reflection of the Arab consensus in the summit and its centered in Baghdad on the Arab decision,” and pointed out that “Iraq’s principled positions on the Palestinian issue, and Iraq’s ability to play the role of pivotal mediation between the actors in the region, in addition to the moral side of the summit and its convening, as it indicates Iraq’s position within its Arab vital field.”
Ali warned that “the most important among that is the acceptance of the other, that is, the extent to which the Arab incubator accepts Iraq’s return to its status and natural weight, even if it is relative,” and stressed that “all these data, including the summit in Baghdad, will be linked to a group of determinants, the most important of which is Iraq’s possession of the independence of its political decision, the ability to manufacture its regionally linked security and foreign policy strategies based on neutrality and a move away from the axes.”
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