Abstract
Iraq was freed from the Turks during the First World War. It was recognized as an independent state, to be placed under a Mandatory Power, and the mandate was allotted to Great Britain. Relations between the two countries were defined by a 25-year treaty concluded in June 1930 (Cmd. 3797), which, inter alia, provided that Great Britain should as soon as possible recommend Iraq for admission to the League of Nations. This recommendation was made and accepted, whereupon, on 4 Oct. 1932, the mandate was terminated, Iraq became an independent sovereign state and a member of the League of Nations and the Anglo-Iraqi treaty became effective to last till Oct. 1957.
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Statistical Information. The Principal Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Economics, Baghdad, publishes an annual Statistical Abstract (latest issue 1955) and a Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics. Foreign Trade statistics are published annually by the Directorate-General of Customs and Excise (latest issue, 1953).
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Steinberg, S.H. (1957). Iraq. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270862_39
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