Planning confirms its readiness to conduct the census in 2014 and proposes a solution to the disputed

Saturday, June 8, 2013 10:51



Twilight News / confirmed by the Ministry of Planning, Saturday, readiness to conduct the general census of the population in 2014, مشترطة find a solution to the disputed areas between Baghdad and Erbil before starting this census.

And cited the Iraqi Constitution, ratified in 2005, Article 140, which provides for the normalization of the situation in the disputed areas in Kirkuk and other provinces, such as Nineveh and Diyala.

And set a time limit expired in the atheist and the thirtieth of December 2007 to implement all of the Provisions of the said article of the action, also left for the people of those areas freedom of self-determination of both survival and independent administrative unit or appended to the Kurdistan Region by organizing a referendum, but the obstacles many have led to delay the implementation of some basic items in the article.

The agent said the ministry Mahdi Keywords in an interview for "Twilight News", that "the ministry can implement the general population census in 2014 if there is a political agreement," noting, "If what has been agreed on how to manage the disputed areas, either through a political solution destruction or temporary, we can then conduct the census next year. "

He Keywords that "the government and as a result the political dispute about areas of disagreement did not put a budget for the census process in the budget of 2013", adding that "the disappearance of a budget for the census for the current year was a reality by the government because of the lack of political agreement on the subject."

He denied Keywords that be "to the ownership of the areas in dispute and resolve the fate link the subject of the census," explaining, "It was we could carry out the census, according to the reality of what is agreed upon in how to manage the work of the census and when being the report of the ownership of each area can easily move the data file to the province that the area will become part of them. "

He and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Planning, that "the ministry's preparations still exist and may only need months to update the census if there is a political agreement."

And lacks Iraq to a policy of population, and had no policy of statistical effective, what impact significantly on the follow-up issues related to people's lives on Economic, Social, and the census, which was scheduled to take place after the overthrow of the former regime, has been postponed more than once over the past years due to differences political.

Did not witness Iraq since the 1987 census comprehensive across the country, because the census, which was conducted in 1997 did not include the provinces of Kurdistan three, and the number of Iraqis, 16 million people in 1987, and is expected to exceed the population of 30 million, according to forecasts by the Central Bureau of Statistics.


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