Rustam Minnikhanov arrives in Turkmenistan with official visit
26 April 2014, Saturday
On April 26 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who arrived in Turkmenistan with two-day official visit, was met by First Deputy Chairman of Turkmenistan Cabinet of Ministers Rashid Meredov, Ambassador of Russia to Turkmenistan Aleksandr Blokhin at Ashkhabad airport.
Tatarstan President is going to meet with Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, and hold negotiations where agreements on cooperation will be signed. In the afternoon Rustam Minnikhanov will meet with President of Turkish Republic Abdullah Gül.
On April 27 Rustam Minnikhanov will take part in Turkmen Racing Horse Festival.
Deputy Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov, Minister of Transport and Roads Lenar Safin, Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Linar Yakupov, OAO “Tatneft” Director General Nail Maganov, Board Chairman of OAO “Nizhnekamskneftekhim” Vladimir Busygin, and OAO “KAMAZ” Director General Sergey Kogogin are on Tatarstan delegation.
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.
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.