Tatarstan President meets with Singapore Vice-Premier
22 June 2013, Saturday
On June 22 at a meeting of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov with Singapore delegation led by Vice-Premier and Minster of Finances Tharman Shanmugaratnam Tatarstan Ministry of Education and Science and Educare company signed Memorandum on cooperation, and Tatarstan Ministry of Information and Communication and Singapore Committee on international trade signed Memorandum on mutual understanding.
Rustam Minnikhanov welcomed members of Singapore delegation saying that Singapore and Tatarstan are united by long-term relations and a number of joint projects. Republican officials take part in sessions of Russian-Singapore intergovernmental commission headed by Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Igor Shuvalov, Tatarstan delegation always visits Russian-Singapore Business Forum.
Tatarstan President continued that relations with Singapore gave impetus to development of “Electronic Government”, Innopolis project, and the whole IT industry.
Rustam Minnikhanov focused on cooperation in educational sphere and the professional development programme for teachers Educare that was very efficient. He invited Singapore companies for establishment of joint enterprises in Tatarstan.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam shared his impressions about Kazan noting that it is a wonderful city for life and work. He continued that republican leadership is willing to adopt best world practices and has gained wide experience in maintaining interethnic stability.
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.