Ildar Khalikov meets with Azerbaijan Prime Minister
5 March 2012, Monday
Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov met with Azerbaijan colleague Artur Rasi-Zade in Baku during his working visit to Azerbaijan Republic.
The Azerbaijan party was also presented by several ministers. Head of the ministry of emergency situations Rafis Khabibullin, deputy of RF State Duma Irek Boguslavsky, Chairman of “Ak Bars Bank” Board Robert Musin, first vice minister of industry and trade Igor Nosov took part in the event on the part of Tatarstan.
Artur Rasi-Zade welcomed members of the Tatarstan delegation and was hopeful that the visit would favour development of relations between Azerbaijan and Tatarstan.
Ildar Khalikov in turn marked that it is a return visit of the Tatarstan delegation after the visit of Azerbaijan emergency minister to RT. According to RT Premier, the visit of Azerbaijan party gave impetus to development of relations and Tatarstan would try to keep it up.
Economic potential of Azerbaijan was presented to the Tatarstan delegation at the meeting.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.