The President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev met Danial Ahmetov, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
30 May 2006, Tuesday
On May 30 the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev in his official residence met Danial Ahmetov, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, who came to Tatarstan at the head of the official delegation a day before.
Mintimer Shaimiev and Danial Ahmetov discussed future trends of the development of cooperation between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Republic of Kazakhstan in different spheres. At the end of the meeting the Ministry of Transport and Communication of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Transport and Roads of the Republic of Tatarstan have signed the agreement of the mutual cooperation. The agreement between JSC National Company "Kazakhstan engineering" and the JSC "Kazan Helicopter Plant" was signed also.
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.