Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Thuringia Prime Minister
17 October 2013, Thursday
On October 17 during his working trip to Germany Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Thuringia Prime Minister Ms Christine Lieberknecht in Erfurt.
Ms Prime Minister welcomed Tatarstan delegation and noted great interest displayed by local businessmen and public organisations towards the visit. She added that all spheres of potential cooperation between Tatarstan and Thuringia, such as education, agricultural industry, construction, petrochemistry, are developing. She hoped that during the forum that will be held on October 18 Tatarstan and Thuringia partners will agree on new joint projects.
Rustam Minnikhanov, in his turn, thanked Ms Lieberknecht for invitation to visit Thuringia and opportunity to present Tatarstan economic and investment potential.
Rustam Minnikhanov noted that Tatarstan is one of rapidly developing and investment-attractive regions in Russia. He confirmed that there are good opportunities for developing cooperation between Tatarstan and Thuringia.
Summing up, the parties agreed on return visit of Thuringia delegation to Tatarstan.
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