Mintimer Shaimiev meets with representatives of Mitsui company
28 October 2013, Monday
On October 28 Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev met with Mitsui project development CEO Sugawara Masato, General Manager of the Department for industrial projects Yoshihiko Ishii, Senior Manager for Project Development Nakidsima Kaori, and Manager of the Department for industrial projects Marat Khalilyulin, who came to Kazan to take part in jubilee events dated to 55th anniversary of the first production output at OAO “Kazanorgsintez”.
To the point, Mitsui company and OAO “Kazanorgsintez” are united by a long-term cooperation history.
Sugawara Masato thanked Tatarstan State Counsellor for the meeting and conveyed best wishes from Takehiro Togo, who had visited Tatarstan several times and met with Mintimer Shaimiev as Ambassador of Japan to Russia, and Senior Adviser of Mitsui Institute of Strategic Research.
Participants of the meeting discussed cooperation between Mitsui and Tatarstan companies. Mintimer Shaimiev told about social and economic development of the republic and new innovative projects.
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