Ildar Khalikov meets with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia Nikolay Elizarov
29 September 2011, Thursday
On September 29 Prime Minister of Tatarstan Ildar Khalikov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia Nikolay Elizarov. In the meeting took part representative of RF Ministry of foreign affairs in Kazan Radik Vakhitov, Acting minister of industry and trade Rashat Fattakhov and Aide to RT Premier on external economic activity Alfred Zakirov.
Attendees of the meeting discussed further cooperation between republic and RF Ministry of foreign affairs and prospects of Tatarstan international development.
Head of RT Government thanked representative of RF Ministry of foreign affairs for support in organizing important international events hosted by republic. “We are going to continue developing international relations and hope for support of the ministry”, - Ildar Khalikov stated.
Nikolay Elizarov noted that Tatarstan is well-known in diplomatic circles due to rapid rates of development and dynamic cooperation with foreign partners.
We remind that inspection group of RF Ministry of foreign affairs led by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia Nikolay Elizarov stays in Tatarstan Republic on September 23-30, 2011.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials