Representatives of Tatarstan delegation hold a number of working meetings at IV Annual Investment Meeting in Dubai
8 April 2014, Tuesday
On April 8, Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Linar Yakupov met with Director of regional division (Asia) of Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector Ahmed Halid within the framework of IV Annual Investment Meeting in Dubai.
The variants of establishment of the Hadj investment and savings fund, as well as possible structure of a future company were discussed at today’s meeting. The business model of the Malaysia’s pilgrim fund was considered as an example.
According to Linar Yakupov, such investment fund would allow people to save their money and go to Hadj to fulfill their religious duties afterwards.
In the afternoon, a presentation of investment opportunities of Tatarstan was made for potential investors. Linar Yakupov told about the investment openness of the region and purposeful state policy for supporting investment companies. Director General of OAO “Special economic zone “Innopolis” Igor Nosov also took part in the presentation.
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.