Tatarstan will actively develop cultural cooperation with Egypt
17 November 2009, Tuesday
Tatarstan will actively develop cultural cooperation with Egypt. Such an agreement was reached within the framework of the visit to this Arabic country of Deputy Prime-Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan – Minister of Culture Zilya Valeeva.
The reason of Deputy-Prime-Minister’s visit to Egypt was an invitation to the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival, in the course of which the traditional meeting of the presidents of well-known Film Forums took place. Zilya Valeeva took part in this meeting too.
Zilya Valeeva invited Minister of Culture of Egypt Farouk Hosni to Tatarstan. In Cairo ministers discussed the possibility to exchange exhibitions of artists. Within the framework of the meeting parties agreed to prepare concrete proposals on tour of groups and joint projects in coming year 2010.
On 17 March, speaking at a meeting of the State Council of the republic, where its Chairman Farid Mukhametshin declared his early termination of powers, Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaymiev said: “Mutual respect and deep understanding help to preserve high trust of our people.”
On 13 March the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev accompanied by the regional Mufti Kamil Samigullin took part in the XIV Iftar of the republic organized by the Spiritual Board of Muslims of Tatarstan, the administration of the Ak Bars Arena stadium and the national tourist complex Tugan Avylym (My Native Village) at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center.
On 20 January in the evening Russian President Vladimir Putin called Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and congratulated him with his birthday. During the conversation Vladimir Putin stated that he is happy to hear bright voice of Mintimer (Sharipovich) and wished him good health and all the best.
On 20 January, congratulating Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev with his birthday, the Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Mishustin wrote in his telegramme: “Being a famous and political leader, you have made a substantial contribution into modern development of Tatarstan and have earned the deep respect and gratitude of residents of the republic.
SUBSCRIBE FOR NEWS
All content on this site is licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
If you see a mistake,
please select the word or sentence and press CTRL+ENTER