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Tourism is a top priority for the Government and the Presidency and we will continue to develop it in all its forms, President Rosen Plevneliev said when he officially opened the latest round of World Cup skiing - alpine skiing, for women - Downhill and Super G, which Bansko is hosting on Saturday and Sunday.

The agenda of the Consultative Council on National Security to be held at the end of March will include energy security and independence and energy efficiency. This emerged at a meeting between President Rosen Plevneliev and the co-chairs of the Blue Coalition, Martin Dimitrov and Ivan Kostov.

“Bulgaria already has nine sites in the UNESCO list of World Cultural and Natural Heritage,” but the country has more to include under the protection of the organisation, including in respect of cultural heritage.

President Rosen Plevneliev met today "Dondukov" 2 with the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament Boris Šprem, who is visiting Bulgaria on the occasion of the National Assembly’s ratification of Croatia’s EU Accession Treaty.

President Rosen Plevneliev today received Richard Morningstar, Special Envoy of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on energy issues for Europe and Eurasia, at 2 Dondoukov Boulevard.