Baghdad Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi affirmed: “Stability, peace, cooperation, growth and common security in our region are strategic goals that will frame the next stage.”

Al-Kadhimi said in an article titled “A historical necessity whose password is: restoring confidence”: “Positive signs are looming in our region and moving the wills of its political leaders towards starting to alleviate the crises that have afflicted it and making every concerted effort to zero them, which requires us to give priority to the commons that gather our peoples have regained the historical depth and the interaction that reflected it, which was the basis of moral values, a scientific and philosophical inheritance, and knowledge in language, culture, arts and astronomy that enriched human existence.”

He added: “Iraq, as a people and a state, went through bitter experiences that were not limited to their negative impact only on us, but also affected the countries of the region and led to regional and international setbacks that are no less dangerous in their repercussions and complexities than the complexity of the Iraqi scene. And our Iraqi people realize from their historical experiences that any an imbalance in the region, whether in its balance or its interrelationships, such as the one that was at the basis of the absence of the weight of Iraq in all that it posed, in the past years in particular, led to deep rifts in the Arab and regional scene not in isolation, but in conjunction with what the internal situation has been exposed to in Iraq, there are crises and confrontations that have brought it to the brink of deterioration.”

Al-Kadhimi indicated that: “It is no longer possible to coexist with such crises, which is what prompted our Iraqi people to hold us a heavy responsibility for healing our national wound, in order to prevent it from festering, difficult to treat and exacerbated.”

He continued: “The recovery of our Iraq is a contribution to the recovery and revival of our Arab world, and this is our common national responsibility. Among the reasons for our recovery at all levels and fields, is our concerted efforts to confront our common enemy after describing it and confronting it with all means to uproot its roots and incubators in our countries and in the region entirely.”

He stressed that our common enemy is terrorism with its various facets and facades, and its takfiri approach and perverted tendencies. They live on hatred, resentment and rejection of the other. They falsify the heritage and the Prophetic Sunnah and cut the clear verses from the Book of God, the Qur’an, and use them for their misguided aims that offend the values of the tolerant Islamic religion. The terrorists use all misguided methods that negate every aspect of tolerance and coexistence that has been enshrined in the conscience of our peoples over thousands of years of bonds of love, cooperation and mutual respect among the components of our peoples within the framework of their diversity, plurality and unity, and spread among them ideals and human values, and enriched the heritage of their authentic culture.

He continued: “We look forward to spreading the values of convergence, tolerance and goodwill among us as peoples and nations, brothers, neighbors and friends, and such cohesion would formulate an understanding of the world as it moves at an accelerating pace in the midst of development and progress so that it makes us closer to realizing the concerns that surround us.

He added: “The Coronavirus pandemic came as an unprecedented warning to confirm the inability of the entire world, despite the development of science and technology, to banish the specter of its deadly dangers, without meeting its will as a way to conquer it, with the persistence of doubts that it will be able to eliminate the pandemic completely, so how are we in our region while we are in a state of absence of the common will that unites us? Our countries suffer from various epidemics and lack the necessary means and capabilities to deal with them.”

Al-Kadhimi asked: Is there a way to be vigilant and to remedy the dangers that require us to mobilize the sources of strength inherent in the will and determination of our peoples, which did not fail to make massive sacrifices in defense of their aspirations, wishes, values and future? Is it time for us to assert out loud that we, as Arab peoples, deserve to remember together our commons and our origins, and support each other to rise to meet the challenges of tomorrow that may not be mentioned today in our calculations. Is it time for us, as peoples who carry a rich human dimension, to govern our original values and our religious and cultural heritage that is rich in wisdom and the balance of historical experience in order to unite in order to create a state of common civilizational advancement in a manner that befits our contribution to enrichment of human civilization. . Hasn’t it become imperative for us to interact with our neighbors from other nations and to engage with them frankly about our fears and to listen frankly from them also about their fears and concerns?

He stated: “These questions pressure us as we follow our youth throughout our region as they race to expand communication with each other and with the world in order to join the generations that preceded them, so that they may shorten the distance that made them in their wake, and they strive to absorb the treasures of knowledge, science, culture and saturation with human values, based on the principles of living and acceptance. .”

Al-Kadhimi stressed that it is a historic moment in which we examine two basic facts: The first is that there is no way for us to the future in the Middle East without all of us joining hands to preserve the dignity of our peoples and the right of our future generations to a decent life that befits us, and secondly, that this will only be done by restoring the balances of the region that constitutes Iraq as an essential pillar in it, just as brotherly, neighboring and friendly countries form the pillars of our common home.

He concluded by saying: “Stability, peace, cooperation, growth and common security in our region are strategic goals that will frame the next stage, not as isolated perceptions and readings, but rather because they are an expression of a fateful necessity, the key word of which is restoring confidence.”

Source: National Iraqi News Agency