October 4, 2010
Postpone the date of the general census of population to next December
Kurdistan has signaled acceptance of the new date
بغداد ـ الصباح Baghdad morning
Prime Central Bureau of Statistics in the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, Dr. Mehdi Keywords, on Sunday, the postponement of a general census of population to the fifth of December next, as I glimpsed the Supreme Committee of the General Census of Population and Housing in the Kurdistan region to accept this appointment after its claim not to postpone the date for general census scheduled for the twenty-fourth of this month.
Alak said in a statement to transfer site (PUK), said the cabinet discussed a report prepared by the High Authority on the outstanding issues to conduct the general census of the population, have been studying a set of recommendations and decisions as approved by the Council of Ministers, and emphasis was placed on hold Altaadadwi this year that does not exceed schedule the fifth of December.
So called the Supreme Committee of the General Census of Population and Housing in the province of Kurdistan Council of Ministers not to postpone the date for the census scheduled for the twenty-fourth of this month, hinting at the possibility of admission to delay it to the end of this year, according to the proposal of the Ministry of Planning in the central government and the UN mission.
He attributed the Chairman of the Committee for the two said in a statement received by the (morning) on this claim to (the great service provided by the census of all the components of the Iraqi people and his contribution in helping the state institutions to carry out scientific planning accurately document to a database to reduce poverty and improve living standards in all areas).
He added, Cindy (after it was scheduled to conduct the census on 24 this month and because of the interventions governor of Nineveh province Ethel Nujaifi and to stop the training and rehabilitation of enumerators in the province for more than three weeks until now, almost certainly, according to Central Bureau of Statistics and the United Nations should be postponed to take place for a certain period so that the earliest date in which the census is technically the fifth of next December).
Detection and Cindy for giving a two meetings recently in Arbil, the President of the Central Bureau of Statistics Mahdi Keywords in the presence of the President of the International Advisory Committee of the United Nations and for the provision of technical advice to the committees census Loay Shabana.
According to Cindy, the Keywords attributed the reasons for the request across the enumeration of (political dimension, and a technical reason for disable the governor of Nineveh province of the training program), for according to the statement, which saw the (suspended Nineveh governor preparations for the census exceeded the powers of the legal terms because the terms of reference, however, the federal government, not governments local).
The statement expressed readiness to discuss any substantive proposals that will reassure the Arabs and Turkmen in some disputed areas on the fears of the census, with their claim in return guarantees not to display Kurdish citizens in these areas for any risk, according to the statement.
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