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    Kurdistan Region Authority Demands Postponement of Population Census in Iraq

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    Post by Rocky Sun 10 Nov 2024, 5:08 am

    Kurdistan Region Authority Demands Postponement of Population Census in Iraq


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    Shafaq News/ Fahmi Burhan, head of the Kurdistan Regions Authority outside the Kurdistan Regional Government, called on Sunday on the federal government to postpone the population census to another date due to the failure to address the issue of the disputed areas between Erbil and Baghdad covered by Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution.
    Burhan said in a press conference held today in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, "All of us in Kurdistan must make every effort to return the Kurds, the original inhabitants of Kirkuk, to the governorate so that the population census can be conducted in their presence."
    He added, "We are not against the population census, we consider it necessary, and we believe that it achieves the development goals that we seek, especially in the four provinces of the Kurdistan Region," adding, "But since the issue of the disputed areas has not yet been resolved, we see it as better to postpone this census to another date."
    Burhan continued, saying, "This census will apparently be conducted for political purposes, and aims to reduce the geographical size of the Kurdistan Region," calling on the Kurds in Iraq to boycott the population census scheduled to be conducted on the 20th and 21st of this November.
    Iraq conducted its last population census in 1987, in which all governorates participated, followed by the 1997 census, which was conducted without the participation of the governorates of the Kurdistan Region.
    Over the past years, the country has relied on approximate statistical figures issued by unofficial institutions and research centers concerned with this matter, before the Ministry of Planning issued estimates in 2022 that the population of Iraq had reached more than 42 million people.
    In contrast, the issue of the disputed areas in Iraq is one of the most complex and sensitive issues in the political scene that has not seen a solution since 2003. These areas include vast lands extending between the Kurdistan Region and the government in Baghdad, and are also distinguished by their diversity in terms of nationality and ethnicity.
    The census has been delayed over fears of politicization, and has been opposed by ethnic groups in disputed areas such as the Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen-populated city of Kirkuk, which is home to major oil fields, because it could reveal demographics that could undermine their political ambitions.
    The census may provide answers or create more friction in a multiethnic country that suffered sectarian violence after the 2003 U.S. invasion and is now trying to consolidate security gains while deciding how to distribute its vast oil wealth. Iraq has the world's third-largest oil reserves.
    After 2003, the Kurdistan Region demanded the annexation of Kirkuk and the conduct of a population census. The census will determine whether the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the city, which may support that demand.
    It will also reveal the number of people living in the Kurdistan Region, which will determine its share of Iraqi government revenues, which currently stands at about 12 percent.
    The census was supposed to show the religious makeup of Muslim-majority Iraq, or ethnicity, but it deliberately did not ask the population about this, which generated rejection from residents of conflict zones.
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