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Iraq Delays Census, Again

November 30, 2010

Iraq's government has once again postponed its first full census in more than two decades.

The population count has been stalled in a long-standing dispute over how to count the ethnic breakdown between Arabs and Kurds in the country's north.

The census is critical to determining land ownership rights in Iraq's northern oil-producing region.

An official in the Planning Ministry, Mahdi al-Alaq, has said no new date has been set for the population count, which had previously been scheduled for October 24 and then delayed until December 5.

compiled from agency reports

Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/article/2234983.html

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