Rustam Minnikhanov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Latvia in RF

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Latvian Republic in RF Mr Edgars Skuya. The meeting took place in House of RT government with participation of Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin, Director of Department for external relations under RT President Staff – Aide to RT President on international issues Iskander Muflikhanov, Chairman of Committee on developing small and medium entrepreneurship Linar Yakupov, First deputy minister of industry and trade Igor Nosov and others.

Rustam Minnikhanov stressed that Tatarstan and Latvia have potential for developing cooperation. According to R. Minnikhanov foreign-trade turnover between Latvian Republic and RT is based upon export of Tatarstan oil and petrochemical products. By the way volume of deliveries of Latvian goods to Tatarstan is rather small.

Edgars Skuya said that Latvia shows interest towards Tatarstan on the part of business community. At today’s meeting the project on organizing network of fast-food restaurants in Kazan by Latvian company «Lido» was presented to Rustam Minnikhanov at the meeting.

Rustam Minnikhanov supported the project and gave assignment to work out details of its realization.

Edgars Skuya invited Rustam Minnikhanov to visit Latvia with delegation of Tatarstan businessmen.