Tatarstan President arrives in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
21 March 2014, Friday
On March 21, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov arrived in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with a working visit. Russian Ambassador in the DPRK Alexander Timonin met Rustam Minnikhanov at the Pyongyang airport.
During his visit to Korea Rustam Minnikhanov will meet with Korea's Minister of Foreign Trade, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly and attend a number of events. Members of the delegation will hold meetings at relevant ministries.
Tatarstan First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Ruslan Kabirov, Tatarstan First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Nikolay Titov, Board Chairman of Tatarstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Shamil Ageev, Director General of OAO “Tatneftekhiminvest-holding” Rafinat Yarullin, Chairman of Board of Directors of OAO “TAIF” Rustem Sulteev, Vice-principal of Kazan Federal University Marat Safiullin are on the Tatarstan delegation.
On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.
On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.
On May 14, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in the events of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, was met by Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials at the Kazan International Airport.