Ildar Khalikov meets with Director General of Thuringia Agency of economic development

On March 27 at his meeting with Director General of Thuringia Agency of economic development Andreas Krai, Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov welcomed members of the delegation and thanked Thuringia leadership for attention paid to Tatarstan.

Ildar Khalikov noted that Germany is one of the main partners of the republic with trade turnover between Germany and Tatarstan being 1.6 billion dollars in 2013. He briefly told about major projects being implemented in the republic.

Andreas Krai welcomed Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov on behalf of Thuringia Prime Minister Christina Liberkneht and said that she is going to visit Tatarstan with Thuringia businessmen in June.

According to Andreas Krai, representatives of ten German companies, producing automotive components, are on the delegation.

New joint projects in the sphere of medicine were also discussed at the meeting.

Summing up, Ildar Khalikov said he was glad that there are new prospective areas of cooperation between Tatarstan and Thuringia. He also called for developing interuniversity interaction and achieving certain results by the visit of Thuringia Prime Minister in June.