Rustam Minnikhanov visits largest industrial park in Dubai DuBiotech
1 May 2013, Wednesday
On May 1 during the working trip to United Arab Emirates Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited largest industrial park in Dubai - DuBiotech.
Dubai Biotechnology and Research Park is the world’s first special economic zone in the sphere of biomedicine. TECOM Investments is the managing company and the investor.
There are 95 residents on its territory, among which are Pfizer, Amgen, Merck Serono, Genzyme, Bristol-Myers, Squibb Firmenich. Main activities of the companies are research, manufacturing of high-tech produce, equipment analysis and testing, sales and marketing, presentation of medical equipment, packing services and logistics.
DuBiotech cooperates with Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Centre and Swiss Biotech Association.
Rustam Minnikhanov got familiar with DuBiotech infrastructure. DuBiotech is a good example of how a free economic zone became one of the world’s best within seven years, he said.
Such success was achieved due to special features of UAE legislation which provides favourable conditions for attraction of foreign capital and a developed infrastructure.
Tatarstan should adopt experience of DuBiotech complex, Rustam Minnikhanov said.
On 3 July at their meeting in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and trade representatives of Russia to foreign countries discussed current trade and economic interaction of the republic with foreign partners, issues of export activities of enterprises of the republic, promotion of Tatarstan produce to foreign markets and development of new niches, issues of logistics and the development in inter-regional ties.
On 1 July in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin held a meeting of organizational committee for preparing an international forum ROSTKI: Russia-China mutually beneficial cooperation, where he said that the forum will be held for the third time in the republic. “It is the largest business platform uniting representatives of business, state power and community of two countries. Since its establishment the forum has proved itself to be an efficient tool for the development of economic cooperation between Russian regions and Chinese provinces, facilitating the implementation of joint investments projects and creating promising productions,” he said.
On 28 June, speaking at a regular meeting in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said there will be a number of public events in the coming week and their organizers together with law-enforcement bodies should ramp up security measures.
On 26 June in his address on the occasion of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Tatarstan First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Nigmatullin, who is also the Chairman of Anti-Drug Commission of the republic, said: “On 26 June the world community celebrates the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking the main aim of which is to attract attention of all states and the world community to this problem.