Nineveh Provincial Council member Marwan Al-Taie confirmed the council’s rejection of the deployment of census teams affiliated with the Kurdistan Region in the disputed areas within the administrative borders of Nineveh Province .

Al-Taie said that the council hosted the governor of Nineveh to confirm this, indicating that the Nineveh Statistics Directorate confirmed that its teams will be deployed in all disputed areas within the administrative borders of Nineveh.