18 November this year, the Government of Bulgaria and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) held an online meeting on the topic “Demographic Resilience and Sustainable Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia”.
Welcoming remarks were made by: HE Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the UN – Mr. Georgi Panayotov, Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNFPA - Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia - Ms. Alanna Armitage. Deputy Chairman of the State Statistics Committee for Social Statistics Ziyadullaev Mahmudjon Dzhurakulovich took part in the event on behalf of the State Committee on Statistics.
The purpose of the event is to share experiences of demographic diversity and how to respond to the dynamics of different population groups, as well as showcase the UNFPA program on demographic resilience in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and promote future implementation.
In his speech, Makhmudjon Ziyadullaev highlighted in detail the progress of the implementation of the action plan for the population census in 2023, in particular, he emphasized the activities on the preparation of the population census of the State Committee on Statistics during quarantine measures in our country, the work on informing the population about the population census on the official website of the State Committee on Statistics and in Mass media, about cooperation with international organizations and plans for the future.
For information, this event is dedicated to the Sammit in Nairobi in 2019 and provides an opportunity to highlight demographic trends that affect progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in the region, reflect the progress of governments in meeting the commitments made at the Summit, and share experiences solving the problems that have arisen in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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