At the Conference, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Cuong presented the major orientations to prepare for the construction of the Civil Status Law and set forth the basic limitations such as the provisions of law are dispersed in various documents each; the civil status registration is heavily administrative in nature; authorization of civil status registration is still cumbersome. Thus, several orientations for the content of Civil Status Law have been proposed, such as building up the professional and modern civil status registration and management systems; adjusting the assignments of the civil status registration and management; building the database on civil status.

The conference’s participants also heard JICA experts introduce the Civil Status Law of Japan as well as practical experiences in this field. They then exchanged views and made recomendations on the civil status work./.-ITD