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A group of experts from the Ministry of Finance of Tadzhikistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr. Djamshed Nurmahmadovic, visited NSI during its study visit in Bulgaria. The visit was held within the framework of an EC project aiming to provide technical assistance to the recently created Department for Monitoring the State Enterprises, subordinated to the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tadzhikistan.

The General Assembly passed a resolution, by which designated 20 October as World Statistics Day. Based on this decision the United Nations will go on promoting the development of national statistics and improving their comparability, coordinating the statistical work related to the collection, storage and dissemination of statistical information.

The Statistical-organizational Department at the Ministry of Finance was founded on 25^th June 1880. This is the beginning of the statistical institution in Bulgaria.

In relation with the celebration of the 130^th anniversary of Bulgarian statistics, NSI created a blog, which is located at the following web site.

The Partnership Group Meeting will be held on 25th June in Dublin.

At the Meeting, special attention will be devoted to discussions and approval of the agenda of the 96th DGINS on ”Measuring progress, well-being and sustainable development” and the 6th ESSC Meeting, Bulgaria being the host of both meetings within the 29 September – 1 October 2010 period.

The NSI set up a web site in connection with the 96^th Conference of the Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes¹ of the EU Member States and the 6^th meeting of the European Statistical System Committee to be held within the September 29 – October 1, 2010 period in Sofia. The web site address is http://www.dgins-sofia2010.eu.

The Conference is the EU annual forum in the field of statistics, conducted from 1953 up to date.

Eurostat experts will visit BNSI on 2-3 June 2010 with the aim to see how the organization of the 96^th DGINS, to which Bulgaria will be the host country and the 6^th ESSC meeting, is going on. Both meetings will be held in the period 29 September - 1 October 2010.

This year the BNSI tends to issue a newsletter that aims to present the NSI activity in the field of international cooperation on national level, as well as within the ESS framework. It will publish materials and pictures from the most important international events in which NSI has taken part. The first pilot issue covers current events in 2009, while our intention is to have 2 issues in 2010 – one of them will be devoted to the most important international statistical forum during the year, i.e the 96th DGINS conference and Bulgaria being its host.

The Deputy President of the National Statistical Institute Mrs. Gergana Mihaylova welcomed the participants wishing them beneficial outcome of the training course on the European Statistical System. The course is organized within the framework of 2006 Multi-beneficiary Phare Programme for Statistical Cooperation together with Statistics Denmark as a course provider. The period of its implementation is 1-3 June 2010.