The Government received a measles-elimination certificate from the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Mongolia joins Australia, Macao SAR (China) and the Republic of Korea as the only countries and areas in the Western Pacific to have interrupted the spread of local strains of measles for more than three years. The Certificate handover ceremony took place in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, on 26 June. “This is an important step towards measles elimination in the Western Pacific Region,” said Dr Shin Young-soo, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific. ”It demonstrates that measles elimination is not only theoretically feasible, but also achievable in middle- and low-income countries and areas of the Western Pacific.”