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Planning expects to end the differences of the census in September
On: Friday 12/8/2011 6:59
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suggested the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation of Iraq Thursday, ending the political differences existing in the provinces of Kirkuk and Nineveh on the general population census in the country by September next, stressing that they are determined to conduct the census end of the year.
It was due to hold general population census in the country In 2009, the process is delayed more than once because of the objections of some parties to conduct in the disputed areas between Erbil and Baghdad.
He said Planning Minister Ali Shukri, told the Kurdish news agency that "the ministry would end the political problems in Kirkuk and Nineveh provinces with respect to file the administrative boundaries and disputed areas that hinder the census during the month of September next."
He added that "the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation intends to conduct the census at the end of this year in order to benefit from its findings in support of economic development projects and industrial development in the country. "
The thanks that "the Ministry of Planning does not have technical problems hinder the process of conducting the census, but the time of the census requires preparation at least three months to make the necessary preparations."
In the last time has been postponed census indefinitely, amid claims made to take advantage of their data in the process of economic development.
and the Prime Minister the end of 2010, four committees in Kirkuk, Nineveh, Salahuddin and Diyala provinces to provide field reports on the problem of the census of population in those provinces, did not provide only the provinces of Diyala and Salahuddin, which confirmed that there was no outstanding problems with failed Committees Kirkuk and Nineveh in the reporting necessary to conduct the census.
did not see Iraq since the 1987 census a comprehensive nationwide, because the census conducted in 1997 did not include the governorates of the Kurdistan region of the three. "
The number of Iraqis, 16 million people in 1987, and is expected to reach this time between 30 and 31 million, according to the expectations of the Central Agency for Statistics.
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