Government approves updating civil statuses' strategy

SANA'A, Nov. 25 (Saba)-The government approved in its cabinet
meeting held on Tuesday Interior Ministry's strategy over updating
civil statuses and registry for 2008-2015 in regulation and
institutional fields.

The strategy aims at completing data base of population by 2015 on
governorate and district level depending on identification card, the
national number and vital marks included in electronic slice.

The strategy covers a number of duties among of which regulating law
of civil status and registry, its executive by-law and by- law of
civil statuses and authority and preparing indexes and guiders.

Earlier, the cabinet has reviewed field survey's results of
registering births and other records of civil statuses for 2006. The
survey disclosed deteriorated awareness on importance of registering
in the civil record for different purposes.