Ildar Khalikov meets with Deputy Akim of Aktobe oblast (Kazakhstan)
25 July 2012, Wednesday
Tatarstan’s Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov has met with Marat Tagimov, Deputy Akim of the Aktobe oblast (Kazakhstan) in Kazan.
Marat Akhmetov, republic’s Vice-premier –Minister of agriculture and foodstuff; Ravil Zaripov, Vice-premier – Minister of industry and trade; Alfred Zakirov, Aide to the Tatarstan PM on foreign economic activity attended the meeting at the House of RT Government.
The visit of delegation from the Aktobe oblast resulted from arrangements reached by Ildar Khalikov and Akim of the Aktobe oblast Arkhimed Mukhambetov during the recent visit of the Tatarstan PM to Kazakhstan for participation in Sabantui celebrations. To the point, Head of the Tatarstan Government offered leadership of the Aktobe oblast to study Tatarstan’s experience in the spheres of industry, agriculture and medicine.
In the context of the current trip, guests are going to visit republic’s advanced agricultural enterprises, big agro-holdings and family farms. Moreover, Tatarstan’s industrial projects and main medical institutions will be presented to members of the delegation.
At today’s meeting the parties discussed issues connected with the current working trip. Ildar Khalikov thanked leadership of the Aktobe oblast represented by Marat Tagimov for excellent organization of Sabantui in Aktobe. He also handed a letter from the Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov addressed to the Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev with words of gratitude for holding this holiday at high level.
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