Whereas the Nineveh Plain territorially affirms the indigeneity of the Assyrian people for seven millennia, and is one of a precious few remaining regions of territorial concentration for the Christian Assyrians and as such presents a viable territorial solution to the existential crisis facing the indigenous Assyrians; Whereas, on October 22 and 23, 2003, through the final declaration of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian General Conference , the Christian Assyrians declared their intention to make the Nineveh Plain a new, separate jurisdiction under Iraq’s burgeoning federal system with the express intent of actualizing their right of self-administration ; Whereas the Iraqi Minorities Council brought together independent, elected representatives from the Shabak, Yezidi, Turkmen, and Assyrian peoples in order to combine their efforts and formally call on the Iraqi government to establish a new administrative unit (a new province) in [the] Nineveh Plain in order to live [in] peace at least since 2007; Whereas the United States Congress has at least twice formally legislated support for Iraqis in their efforts to create a province in the Nineveh Plain through appropriations report language in Senate Report 112–85, adopted on September 22, 2011, and Senate Report 113–195, adopted on June 19, 2014; Whereas the Government of Iraq, through a decision of the Council of Ministers, which is the executive branch of the Government of Iraq, initiated the process of forming a province in the Nineveh Plain (as well as Tel Afar, Fallujah and Tuz Khurmato) at the Council’s Session No. 3 of 1/21/2014; Whereas the Nineveh Plain province formation process was underway in mid-2014 when ISIL attacked Iraq, seizing Mosul and soon after the Nineveh Plain, thereby derailing the process; Whereas ISIL committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the peoples of the Nineveh Plain, killing and persecuting thousands and forcing survivors to flee their homeland