Rustam Minnikhanov meets with the Turkish minister of economy
31 May 2012, Thursday
Leadership of the Turkish Republic appreciates business relationships with the Republic of Tatarstan, the Turkish minister of economy Zafer Çağlayan said at a meeting with the Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.
The meeting was held in Istanbul within the confines of the Tatarstan-Turkish Trade-investment forum.
RT President Rustam Minnikhanov expressed a desire to organize the same forum in Kazan where Turkish businessmen will be able to get acquainted with investment opportunities of Tatarstan personally.
Rustam Minnikhanov believes that Tatarstan is the most transparent region of Russia for Turkish business and may become the starting point for entering the Russian market.
The Turkish minister of economy Zafer Çağlayan marked in turn that leadership of the Turkish Republic appreciates business relationships with Tatarstan. “1 of 15 bln dollars of Turkish investments around the world go to Tatarstan. It means a lot,” Zafer Çağlayan said.
He noted as well that the Turkish leadership would continue inviting Turkish companies in Tatarstan. In his opinion, business projects with participation of Turkish companies will be the best advertising for Tatarstan as an investment-attractive region.
On 12 April in his address to residents of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin congratulated them with the Space Exploration Day and said: “April 12, 1961 has forever been inscribed into the world history as the day of triumph of the Soviet science and engineering thought. The flight of Yuriy Gagarin opened the way to the stars for the humankind and demonstrated to the whole world the might of our country.
On 4 April , speaking at a closing ceremony of the XX Russian Venture Forum held at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian Venture Forum has confirmed its status of the point of attraction of technological development leaders.
The Forum created a unified scientific, technological and investment space where scientific ideas are transformed into competitive products, and startups gain access to capital and markets. Its business programme is organically integrated into the regional and federal agenda for achieving technological sovereignty and leadership of Russia, he said.
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.