Rustam Minnikhanov met with special adviser of UNO Secretary General on sport Vilfrid Lemke
28 May 2011, Saturday
President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov met with special adviser of UNO Secretary General on sport for the good of development and peace Vilfrid Lemke.
The meeting was held in residence of RT President at Kazan Kremlin.
Rustam Minnikhanov thanked Mr Lemke for visit to the capital of Tatarstan. The parties discussed issues of preparation for World summer universiade 2013 in Kazan and other international events.
By words of Rustam Minnikhanov today Tatarstan is the region where much attention is paid to development of sport. He reminded that besides summer Universiade 2013 Tatarstan is preparing to host matches within the limits of World football championship 2018.
Tatarstan has also applied for holding World championship in water sports in 2015/17.
In the meeting took part Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, RT Minister of youth affairs, sport and tourism Rafis Burganov, Director of Department for external relations under RT President Staff – Aide to RT President on international issues Iskander Muflikhanov.
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.