Mintimer Shaimiev has received Advisor to the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah and CEO of RAK Ceramics
15 August 2007, Wednesday
August 15, the Tatarstan President received Dr. Khater Massaad, Advisor to the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, and CEO of RAK Ceramics.
“We admire your country’s economy and the policy of your government”, Mintimer Shaimiev said to his guests. “Your country has become one of the most economically attractive countries in the world over a short period of time”.
“We feel that the Middle East region is seeking cooperation”, the head of the republic continued. “At my recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin he made a special emphasis on the fact that all Arab countries supported Sochi’s bid for Winter Olympic Games”.
According to the RT President, there are no any obstacles to cooperation between Tatarstan and the UAE. “We have already made the first steps. You have huge experience in organising tourist business. We could open the Arab world for Russians and Russia for Arabs”, Mintimer Shaimiev said.
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.
On 28 August the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in a plenary session of the National Assembly of the World Tatar Congress held with participation of about 1 thousand delegates from 68 regions of Russia and 27 foreign countries in the Tatar State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan’
On 20 June the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev attended horse races held at the International Equestrian Complex in Kazan and dedicated to Kazan Sabantuy.
On 6 June the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev laid flowers to the monument of the Great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin by the Jalil State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan.