Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Qatar delegation at Kazansummit'13
2 October 2013, Wednesday
On October 2 at his meeting with Undersecretary of Qatar Ministry of Economy and Commerce Sultan Al-Khater within the framework of V international investment forum Kazansummit Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that Tatarstan and Islamic countries have common history, culture and religion, but at the same time business relations are not well developed. He added that Kazansummit is a window on Russia for Islamic world.
Rustam Minnikhanov continued that Tatarstan offers comfortable conditions for investments.
Sultan Al-Khater said his first day in Tatarstan left good impression on him, and added that OIC countries are willing to develop relations with Russia.
Rustam Minnikhanov said that Tatarstan leadership closely follows Qatar economic development. He summarized that the current meeting would make Tatarstan and Qatar closer to each other.
Vice-speaker of the Federation Council Ilyas Umakhanov, Aide to Tatarstan President on international issues Radik Gimatdinov, Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Linar Yakupov, Chairman of Chamber of Commerce and Industry Shamil Ageev took part in the event.
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