Rustam Minnikhanov meets President of National Business Association of Colombia (ANDI)
5 November 2014, Wednesday
On November 5, during his visit to Colombia (Bogota), Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met President of National Business Association of Colombia (ANDI) Bruce Mac Master. The company head office is located in Medellin.
Welcoming Tatarstan President and members of the delegation, Mac Master said: “We are very interested in entering Russian market, we need to expand our joint activity and we already have some contacts with Tatarstan companies”.
Tatarstan President told about realization of big oil, gas and engineering projects in the republic, and work of technoparks and industrial zones. He also noted that Tatarstan and Colombia are cooperating in several areas. In particular, OAO “Kazan helicopters” supplies multipurpose helicopters Mi-17-1B, and OAO “KAMAZ” supplies trucks and bus chassis to Colombia.
Aide to Tatarstan President on international and foreign economic affairs Radik Gimatdinov, Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Taliya Minullina, First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Ruslan Kabirov, Board Chairman of Tatarstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Shamil Ageev, Director General of OAO “Tatneft” Nail Maganov, First Deputy Board Chairman of OAO “AK BARS” BANK Zufar Garaev, and Marketing and Sales Director of Kazan helicopters plant Valery Pashko took part in the meeting.
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.