Financing Tatarstan projects is feasible due to Kuwaiti fund of economic development
4 April 2006, Tuesday
Visit to the countries of the Middle East by Tatarstan delegation led by RT President came to the end yesterday by Mintimer Shaimiev's meeting with the Prime Minister of the State Kuwait sheikh Naser al-Muhammad al-Ahmed al-Dzhaber as-Sabah.
Prime Minister of the State Kuwait is the stepbrother of Emir of Kuwait of sheikh Sabaha al-Ahmed al-Dzhaber as-Sabah. In due time he was the Ambassador in Iran, the deputy minister of information, the minister of social affairs and labor, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait, the minister on Emir Divan affairs. In February of this year sheikh Naser al-Muhammad is appointed Prime Minister of Kuwait. He well understands the international affairs, is known as realistically thinking politician, supports personal communications with many foreign heads and politicians.
Welcoming Mintimer Shaimiev, sheikh Naser al-Muhammad admitted, that Kuwait for a long time has been waiting for visit of the President of Tatarstan. As he said, the big merit in it is connected with Minister of Justice, minister of waqf and on affairs of Islam of Kuwait Abdalla Al-Maatouq. During a meeting the issues of cooperation were mentioned in the field of mechanical engineering and helicopter making, and the opportunity of attracting investments from Kuwait to SEZ "Alabuga", cooperation between commercial and industrial chambers of Tatarstan and the Near-Eastern states. The head of the Kuwaiti government emphasized, that he can promote adjustment of communications between representatives of business of our republic and Kuwait. He also assured Mintimer Shaimiev that is ready to consider and study various Tatarstan projects which financing could be carried out due to means of the Kuwaiti fund for economic development. «If you have projects which might interest us, the Kuwaiti fund for economic development is ready to consider them», - he promised.
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.