LAW OF AUTONOMY
Text of the Statement made by His Excellency Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr President of the Republic of Iraq on the 11th of March, 1974, Announcing the Resolution of the Revolutionary Command Council Calling for Effecting the Law of Autonomy.
Great People,
Masses of our Glorious Nation,
In confirmation to the ties of the histo-rical citizenship and brotherhood among the nationals of Iraq's Arabs, Kurds and frater¬nal minorities, in compatibility with th democratic principles of the July 17 Revolu tion and in fulfilment to its pledge, in realization of the March 11 Menifesto of 1970 and what is included in the National Action Charter and in consolidation to the common struggle and interests of all nationals of the People and for what all the progressive national and nationalist forces struggle and called upon, The Revolutionary Command Council has decided the applica¬tion of Autonomy to Kurdistan Region.... | 
