President of Azerbaijan sees industrial, sport abd IT achievements of Tatarstan
24 June 2011, Friday
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev staying with a working visit in Kazan has attended today in capital of Tatarstan number of objects. President of Tatarstan presented him achievements of Tatarstan in the sphere of industry, sports and IT.
The delegation of Azerbaijan which besides Ilham Aliev includes Minister of foreign affaires Elmar Mamedyarov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to the Russian Federation Polad Byul-Byul ogly visited Kazan helicopters plants, Universiade Village, IT –park.
General director of JSC Kazan helicopters Vadim Legai presented Azerbaijan guests most updated models of helicopters produced in Kazan, manifested production enterprise capacities. The delegation members saw also the helicopters built at KVZ within the frameworks of the contract for 21 choppers to be supplied to Azerbaijan.
Presentation of JSC KAMAZ output also took place at KVZ, in particular, Ilham Aliev was presented trucks and buses operating on natural gas.
In the Universiade Village Ilham Aliev managed to acquaint with preparation of Tatarstan to major sports events which are to be held in Kazan – World summer Universiade 2013 and world championship on football -2018.
In IT-park President of Azerbaijan saw Tatarstan developments in the sphere of Electronic government, possibilities of single inter-departmental system of electronic documents circulation. .
Here, the presentation of industrial potential of Tatarstan –oil-chemical cluster of the republic, SEZ Alabuga, technopark Khimgrad was arranged for Azerbaijan guests.
Ilham Aliev also got acquainted with operation of coordination system of saving the suffered «GLONASS +112» and visited IT park business –incubator.
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.