Mintimer Shaimiev met with Ambassador of the Netherlands Jan-Paul Dirkse
28 March 2008, Friday
March 28, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Netherlands in the Russian Federation Jan-Paul Dirkse.
“The Netherlands is a prosperous country thanks to its diligence to a large extent. Your business is an example of what today’s management should be like. It is not just words, we got evidence of it working with Dutch companies,” the head of the republic said in the beginning of the meeting.
Mintimer Shaimiev also said that the Dutch experience proves its value in agriculture as well. “I met with directors of Dutch companies, they perform their duties with all diligence,” he underlined. Then the head of the republic told about Tatarstan’s success in dairy production and poultry farming. “Here we have found the ways for cooperation, and we should develop it in other fields too,” 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.