Sunday, December 5, 2010

Dec. 20th Census ~ Maliki and Talibani stressed the need for a census as soon as possible...


Sunday, December 5, 2010

Talabani and Maliki stressed the need for a census as soon as

He said President Jalal Talabani on the sidelines of the meeting of leaders of political blocs in Baghdad, according to a government statement said there was "the importance of the census as soon as possible, as one of the important things that lie ahead for the state (in addition to that) this is not a long time."

Talabani stressed "the importance of the discussion of all things and the obstacles that hinder the process of conducting the census and to find ways to solve them by political leaders and representatives of the blocks and components (...)".

And agreed that the Iraqi political blocs, Sunday, to form joint committees under the auspices of the United Nations in the provinces of Diyala, Salahuddin, Ninevah, Kirkuk, that the committees shall submit its report containing recommendations and problems on the census to the Council of Ministers no later than the 20 of this month.

For his part, Prime Minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki, according to the statement that "the postponement of the census in the past was the result of conditions experienced by Iraq, especially on the security side," indicating that "(...) as a result of security and stability in all, there is no longer any reason why a security ( ...), and must be accelerated to this matter because it is linked to the development process in all areas. "

It was due to hold general population census in the country in the past year, but the process was delayed because of concerns that contribute to such a census in fueling sectarian tension and ethnic across Iraq, especially in the cities of Kirkuk and Nineveh, and select the 24 of October last date for the census but it also changed to 5 December the current was also postponed to an unknown date.

The last census conducted by the government to all governorates of Iraq except Kurdistan region in 1997 and is currently unsupported by the Iraqi government being carried out in exceptional circumstances, if adopted by all ministries census conducted in 1957 in what would be the census, which the Ministry intends to be conducted during this year, a substitute for Census 1957 to be supported in all the provinces in addition to the Kurdistan region.

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