Rustam Minnikhanov: The task of Tatarstan and Saxony is to draw businesses together
23 April 2009, Thursday
The head of the Tatarstan Government, Rustam Minnikhanov, met with the Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony, Stanislaw Tillich, at the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers on April 23.
Tatarstan Premier’s aide for foreign economic work Iskander Muflikhanov said after the meeting that the talks were focused on cooperation in economy and culture.
The delegation of the Free State of Saxony headed by Stanislaw Tillich arrived in Kazan on April 22. The programme of the delegation’s visit to Tatarstan includes familiarization with some large industrial enterprises of the republic, participation in Tatarstan-Saxony Business Forum.
At the meeting Rustam Minnikhanov briefly told Stanislaw Tillich about Tatarstan’s achievements in economy, told about prospective projects, made short reports about the enterprises the Saxony delegation is visiting today – KAMAZ truck plant and the special economic zone Alabuga. Laying the foundation stone of the Tatarstan-German joint venture Price-Daimler-Tatneft-Alabuga-Fibreglass took place in July 2008 in SEZ Alabuga.
“The task of Tatarstan and Saxony at present is to draw our businesses together. Cultural contacts, collaboration in education, science and sport will be established as a result,” Tatarstan Premier stated. He invited Stanislaw Tillich to the opening ceremony of the Universiade-2013 in Kazan.
The Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony invited the head of Tatarstan Government to attend the World Football Championship among women in Dresden in 2011, the press-service of Tatarstan Cabinet informs.
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.
On January 20, the First President of Tatarstan, State Counsellor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev celebrates its 89 birthday.
He received numerous congratulations from the state and regional leaders, public figures, figures in science, education and culture and residents of the country and Tatarstan.
On 16 October in the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaymiev, who is also the Chairman of the Trustees Council of the regional Revival Fund, had a meeting with the Director General of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, who came to Kazan to take part in a ceremony of opening a new exposition “The Yusupovs. Luxury across the Centuries” at the Hermitage Kazan Exposition Center and which has been prepared especially for the 20th anniversary of the Hermitage’s first representational centre established in 2005 by celebrations of the Kazan Millennium.