Rustam Minnikhanov holds a number of business talks and meetings at the Annual Investment Meeting in Dubai
30 March 2015, Monday
On March 30, within the framework of the Annual Investment Meeting in Dubai Acting President Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with Minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates Sultan al-Mansouri.
Minnikhaniv thanked Sultan al-Mansouri for the warm welcome and informative and useful forum. Our relations with the Emirates are becoming closer, he said. According to Minnikhanov, Tatarstan should become an ideal place in Russia, where the UAE will invest into interesting projects.
Rustam Minnikhanov emphasized the cooperation experience between Tatarstan and the UAE. He also outlined perspective collaboration spheres, including Islamic financing, KAMAZ and helicopters supply from Tatarstan as well as exhibitions.
In his turn Sultan al-Mansouri shared that he had had the most pleasant and huge impressions of visiting Tatarstan and Kazan among other places. “You managed to find a balance between traditions and modernity,” he said.
During the talks, both the Tatarstan and Emirates representatives appreciated the perspective cooperation. Rustam Minnikhanov invited the Minister to visit the KazanSummit 2015 International Investment Forum to be in Kazan on June 15-16.
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.