Rustam Minnikhanov: Tatarstan and Czech Republic have good opportunities to increase mutually beneficial cooperation
25 September 2014, Thursday
On September 25, at his meeting with Czech businessmen in Prague Municipal House, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that Tatarstan is open for investments and will render overall support to Czech companies willing to realize their projects in Tatarstan.
Heads of main Czech industrial enterprises and representatives of organizations financing Czech export were invited to the discussion.
Speaking at the meeting, Rustam Minnikhanov thanked everyone for their interest in foreign economic partnership with Tatarstan and noted that good interaction was established between Tatarstan and Czech Republic: trade-economic representative office of Tatarstan in Czech Republic, a joint working group on coordination of trade-economic cooperation between Czech Republic and the Republic of Tatarstan, Czech visa centre are efficiently working.
Rustam Minnikhanov told that oil is produced and refined in the republic, much attention is paid to development of engineering sector and agricultural industry, and innovative development is a driver of economic growth.
42 residents are working at the Special Economic Zone “Alabuga” with 3 billion dollars of declared investments. It is the most successful economic zone of industrial-production type in Russia. New high technology city, Innopolis, and business site “Smart City Kazan” are being constructed.
Large-scale transport projects, -high-speed railway line Moscow-Kazan and Sviyazhsk multimodal logistics centre are to be implemented.
Rustam Minnikhanov considers engineering, automotive production, new materials and advanced technologies, innovative development, agriculture, transport and logistics to be prospective areas of cooperation with Czech partners.
Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Jan Mladek, in his turn, said that considering difficult political situation Czech companies are interested in supporting mutually beneficial cooperation with Russian regions.
Heads of main Czech industrial enterprises and representatives of organizations financing Czech export were invited to the discussion.
Speaking at the meeting, Rustam Minnikhanov thanked everyone for their interest in foreign economic partnership with Tatarstan and noted that good interaction was established between Tatarstan and Czech Republic: trade-economic representative office of Tatarstan in Czech Republic, a joint working group on coordination of trade-economic cooperation between Czech Republic and the Republic of Tatarstan, Czech visa centre are efficiently working.
Rustam Minnikhanov told that oil is produced and refined in the republic, much attention is paid to development of engineering sector and agricultural industry, and innovative development is a driver of economic growth.
42 residents are working at the Special Economic Zone “Alabuga” with 3 billion dollars of declared investments. It is the most successful economic zone of industrial-production type in Russia. New high technology city, Innopolis, and business site “Smart City Kazan” are being constructed.
Large-scale transport projects, -high-speed railway line Moscow-Kazan and Sviyazhsk multimodal logistics centre are to be implemented.
Rustam Minnikhanov considers engineering, automotive production, new materials and advanced technologies, innovative development, agriculture, transport and logistics to be prospective areas of cooperation with Czech partners.
Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Jan Mladek, in his turn, said that considering difficult political situation Czech companies are interested in supporting mutually beneficial cooperation with Russian regions.
Tatarstan President's Press Office
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