President of Austria and Austrian businessmen to visit Kazan
20 April 2011, Wednesday
President of Austrian Republic Heinz Fischer and Austrian businessmen are going to visit Kazan in the end of May 2011. The visit to Kazan is planned within the official visit to Russian Federation.
Preparation for the forthcoming event was discussed in House of RT government at the meeting of RT President Rustam Minnikhanov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Austria in Russia Margot Klestil-Loffler.
Opening the meeting Rustam Minnikhanov thanked Ms Klestil-Loffler for arrival in Kazan. Head of Tatarstan noted that it is a great privilege for republic to receive President of Austria. “We will manage to make up the program so that the visit is interesting and useful”, - Rustam Minnikhanov addressed the Ambassador.
“Surely we’d like to make use of this visit. Representatives of business community will arrive together with President of Austrian Republic. Thus we will have opportunity to present economic and investmen potential of republic, find new contacts and projects that may be realized jointly”, - Rustam Minnikhanov said.
RT President noted that today cooperation between Austria and Tatarstan is rather successful. In particular, the plant of Austrian company on brick production “Vinerberger” is functioning near Kazan, joint enterprise of “KAMAZ” and German-Austrian Company ZF is working in Naberezhnie Chelny, Austrian banks finance several projects in Tatarstan.
Margot Klestil-Loffler informed that it was her first visit to Kazan as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Austria in Russia.
By words of Margot Klestil-Loffler, an official visit of President of Austrian Republic Heinz Fischer to Russia is planned for the end of May. “Our President is going to come with large delegation of Austrian businessmen, - 75 representatives of Austrian business. For this reason the visit will be dedicated to economic sector”, - Ms Ambassador informed.
Speaking about prospects of cooperation between Austria and Tatarstan Margot Klestil-Loffler said that currently potential joint projects are being discussed.
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.