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Bulgarian Embassy in tion’s headquarters.
Delhi: Staple Events On June 29, the Bulgarian film “Chewing Gum for
Bubbles” was presented at the yearly European Film
2018-2019 Festival in Delhi, organised by the Delegation of the
European Union.
On September 20, 2018, Ambassador Petko Doykov On August 9, Ambassador Dimitrova visited Vijayawa-
had a farewell meeting with professors and students da in Andhra Pradesh, at the invitation of the state
from the Slavonic Languages Department of Delhi government and had meetings with the state’s Chief
University. Minister and Minister of Industry, Commerce and
From October 11 to 21, a business delegation from Information Technologies.
Plovdiv visited India to take part in Delhi Interna- On September 11, Ambassador Dimitrova and Iliya
tional Trade Fair 2018. Dekov had a meeting with the management of CII at
On November 19, the “Tradition” exhibition by pho- its office in Delhi.
tographer Alexander Mihaylov was presented at the
Bulgarian Embassy in Delhi.
On February 21, 2019, the newly-appointed Bulgar-
ian Ambassador to India, Ms Eleonora Dimitrova,
and the Head of Trade & Economic Affairs Iliya De-
kov, visited in Delhi the Bulgarian company Excitel
for a meeting with its management. In the Embassy
they met with Mr Amitabh Vardhan, owner of the
Indian company CINÉ GRAND.
On April 5, during an event, organised by the Indian
Trade Chamber PHDCCI in Delhi, investment and On October 1 and 2, a laser engraving with the image
business opportunities in Bulgaria were presented to of Mahatma Gandhi, made on the occasion of his
the audience. 150th birth anniversary by TechPark Optela – Plovdiv,
On April 21, the wine industry in Bulgaria was pre- was gifted for the Gandhi collection in the Cultural
sented at India Wine Summit 2019. Centre of the Indian Diaspora at the Indian MFA, as
On May 17 and 18, Ambassador Dimitrova visited well as to the National Gandhi Museum in Delhi.
Mumbai, Maharashtra, and had meetings with the On October 15, on behalf of the Bulgarian MFA, Am-
Chief Minister of the state, with representatives of bassador Dimitrova signed in Delhi a contract with the
big companies, of SME Chamber of India and of Indian outsourcing company VFS Global for opening
Indian-Bulgarian Business Chamber, with produc- centres in 16 of the biggest Indian cities for processing
tion companies from the film industry of Bollywood. applications for Bulgarian visa.
She also took part in the celebrations for the Day From October 22 to 27, Bulgarian academics Prof.
of Europe in Mumbai, organised by Council of EU Nikolay Ovcharov and Prof. Plamen Pavlov visited
Chambers of Commerce in India and the EU Del- India under the “Mission Bulgaria” project and gave
egation in India. lectures at Delhi University and the Archaeological
On May 22, Ambassador Dimitrova was a guest of Survey of India where the discovery at excavations in
honour on the occasion of the Day of Bulgarian Let- Sofia of a Muhammad bin Tughlaq’s golden coin was
ters, organised by the Indian-Bulgarian Friendship announced.
Association in Delhi.
On June 17, Ambassador Dimitrova had a meeting
with Mr A. Kumar, Dy Minister of Defence.
On June 23, at a meeting in Delhi Rotary Club,
Ambassador Dimitrova and Iliya Dekov presented
the development of Bulgarian-Indian relations as
well as Bulgaria as a business, investment and tourist
destination.
On June 26, Ambassador Dimitrova met part of the
management and members of FICCI at the Federa-