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The fifth meeting of the Group “Sponsorship on Communication” was held on 12 May 2011 at Arena di Serdica Residence Hotel in Sofia.

The meeting was opened by Mr. Jaume Garcia Villar, Chair of the Sponsorship Group on Communication and President of the National Statistics Institute of Spain.

The President of BNSI Dr. Mariana Kotzeva was a special guest of the Club of Diplomats-Economists in Sofia. At the invitation of the Club, whose members are trade and economic counselors of foreign missions based in Sofia, Dr. Kotzeva presented the express results from 2011Census. She talked about the preparation of the successfully conducted in February 2011 statistical survey, the methodology applied and the uniqueness of the results.

Delegation from the National Institute of Statistics of Romania led by prof. Vergil Voineagu - President of the Romanian statistics, visited Bulgaria. The delegation of the Romanian side included Adviser to the President, Mr. Ilie Dumitrescu, IT general director Mr. Gheorghe Vaida - Muntean and Director of Population Census and demographic statistics Mr. Stefan Trica.

The 17^th Population and Housing Census in Bulgaria was successfully concluded on February 28^th, at 20h. It was conducted from 1^st until 28^th February 2011.