Tatarstan President meets with delegation of South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
16 June 2014, Monday
On June 16, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with delegation of the South Moravian Region, the Czech Republic, led by the Governor Michal Hašek.
The delegation is staying in Kazan with the return working visit on June 16-18. To the point, Tatarstan delegation visited the Czech Republic last year in April.
“We were impressed by what we saw in the Czech Republic, and your return visit will favour closer cooperation on many projects,” Rustam Minnikhanov said. He added that Tatarstan is interested in cooperation with Czech Republic in trade and economic relations, science, education, building, innovations.
“We know that the President of the Czech Republic is going to visit Russia. If he wants to visit one of Russian regions, we are glad to see him in Tatarstan,” Tatarstan President noted.
Today, Tatarstan and the Czech Republic cooperate in automotive industry, medicine, petrochemistry, building, and agricultural industry.
Rustam Minnikhanov added that the Czech Republic is one of main economic partners of Tatarstan. Tatarstan is one of six Russian regions that were officially announced by the Government of the Czech Republic as priority regions for cooperation.
Speaking at the meeting, Michal Hašek said that Tatarstan would surely become a traditional and important partner for the republic. He informed that South Moravian Region is one of the most developed regions in the sphere of science and innovations. Thus, he was interested in visiting Tatarstan top universities to study their activities.
Michal Hašek offered Rustam Minnikhanov to meet with governors of all regions within the Czech Republic and Slovakia during his next visit. He also added that local resorts are developing in the republic, and invited Rustam Minnikhanov to spend holidays in the Czech Republic.
“I was so happy to accept the invitation of Tatarstan President. South Moravian Region has well developed relations with Russia. I have come with the representative delegation, and we are going to discuss certain projects during our visit to Tatarstan, first of all, in engineering sphere,” Michal Hašek told journalists.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.