Special committees formed to settle issues related to Iraq’s General Census

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq has formed special committees by representatives of the areas under conflict in the country, in order to settle the issues related to the forthcoming general census, scheduled to take place on Dec. 5, 2010, a source in Iraqi Ministry’s Planning & Development said on Tuesday. The Planning & Development Ministry held a meeting on Monday night, attended by Parliament Members representing north Iraq‘s Kurdistan Region, and the local governments in Salah al-Din, Ninewa and Kirkuk Provinces, in the presence of Planning Minister, Ali Baban and the Chairman of the Central Statistics Body. The meeting discussed the issues related to the general census, in which an agreement was reached to form special committees to present suitable proposals to settle the suspended issues in the forthcoming few days, in order to raise them to the Council of Ministers to take relevant decisions towards them,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The General Census is scheduled to take place, with the participation of 250,000 persons from different parts of Iraq on Dec. 5, 2010. This will be the 9th general census to take place in the country after the first census that took place on June 5, 1927, whilst the last and the 8th census took place on Oct. 16, 1997. Although the last census achieved major statistics about the residential, economic and social changes in the country, it did not cover the Kurdistan Region. SKH/SR 1