Baghdad: Legal expert and consultant, Salem Hawas stated that Iraq's welcome of the historic vote by the US Congress to revoke the Authorizations for the Use of Military Force represents a significant legal, international, and political step toward regulating the use of force, upholding state autonomy, and moving away from the logic of open-ended authorizations that have outlived their time and context.

According to National Iraqi News Agency, in a statement, Hawas explained that this legal and international development came following the US Congress's vote on House Resolution HR1488, which repeals the two Authorizations for the Use of Military Force issued in 1991 and 2002. He noted that the decision is consistent with the principles of public international law and the United Nations Charter, particularly those limiting the use of force to cases of self-defense or explicit international authorization.

Hawas added that the significance of this vote for Iraq goes beyond the internal American framework, as it reflects a shift in the legal approach to military presence, strengthens the path toward respecting national autonomy, and opens the door to relations based on constitutional and legal partnership rather than exceptional military authorizations, especially as the vote coincides with the conclusion of the United Nations' mission in Iraq.