The session was postponed "until further notice" due to "disagreement between political blocs", according to a statement issued by the council's media office.

Jwan Hassan told NRT on Monday that the Council’s members were informed by the presidency of Kirkuk Provincial Council that the meeting would not be held.

“The disagreement between the Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP] and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK] is the main reason that the meeting is not being held,” Hassan said.

The Kurdish Democratic Union (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan(PUK) parties, which hold the majority of seats in the provincial council, are at odds over the issue of Kirkuk and other high-profile posts in the semi-autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG).

Notably, a new Cabinet outline for the KRG could not be agreed on due to political disagreements since parliamentary election held on September 20 last year.

The KDP and the PUK, however, had reached an agreement on February 5 to hold a session of the Kurdistan Parliament and a meeting of the Kirkuk Provincial Council on February 18.

Acting head of Kirkuk Provincial Council Rebwar Talabani called on the members of the Council to meet on Monday following the KDP-PUK agreement.

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