Tatarstan President meets Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs
30 November 2014, Sunday
On November 30, during his working trip to Turkey, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Mayor of Ankara Melih Gökçek.
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Rustam Minnikhanov had met before in Kazan, when Çavuşoğlu was Chairman of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Turkish Minister for EU affairs.
At today’s meeting Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu thanked Rustam Minnikhanov for his warm reception during all his visits to Kazan, including the forum “Kazansummit-2014”.
Minnikhanov, in his turn, told the minister about development of relations between Tatarstan and Turkey since that time. In particular, he mentioned opening of two new enterprises at Alabuga Special Economic Zone, and other plants to be open by Turkish residents in the nearest time.
Çavuşoğlu noted high level of relations between Turkey and the republic and assured Minnikhanov of his willingness to facilitate strengthening of these relations.
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.
On 27 March, speaking at a ceremonial event dedicated to celebrations of the Day of Russian National Guard held at the Kazan City Hall with participation of the Chief of the Office of the Staff of the Rais of the republic Asgat Safarov, heads of law-enforcement bodies of the republic and veterans and employees of the territorial Directorate of the National Guard, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian National Guard Directorate for the republic Republic of Tatarstan is traditionally acknowledged as one of the best in the country.