Pacific Island countries celebrate civil registration achievements

Pacific Island countries celebrate civil registration achievements

By Diana G. Mendoza Bangkok – “Cheehoo! Praise God, oue tulou!”  Sonya Talagi, minister for Social Services of Niue, exclaimed before reading the country statement detailing Niue’s transition from paper to digital system of civil registration during the Third Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific that concluded here on June 26.Talagi’s sudden gust of joy in the otherwise somber meeting at the U…