Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov is on a working visit to Azerbaijan
2 March 2011, Wednesday
March 2, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov is on a working visit to Azerbaijan.
Late on March 1, the plane with Rustam Minnikhanov aboard landed in Baku’s Geidar Aliyev Airport where Azerbaijan Economic Development Minister Shakhin Mustafaev, Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vladimir Dorokhin, Tatarstan Permanent Representative to Azerbaijan Nail Zaripov, Kamaz Director General Sergei Kogogin, Chairman of the World Congress of Tatars Rinat Zakirov, representatives of the Tatarstan Trade House in Azerbaijan and others met the Tatarstan delegation.
During the visit to Baku (1-2 March 2011) Rustam Minnikhanov will meet with representatives of the Azerbaijan Government including Prime Minister Artur Tair ogly Rasi-Zade and the Chairman of the Milli Mejlis of the Azerbaijan Republic, Oktay Sabir oglu Asadov Oktai Sabir ogly Asadov.
The agenda also includes a meeting with Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliev.
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.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.