NEWS

On June 5, 2019, a delegation from the Swiss Confederation visited Tatarstan. As part of their visit, the Swiss delegation headed by Director at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs Ms. Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch, had a meeting with Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov. The parties to the meeting discussed issues of trade and economic cooperation between Tatarstan and Switzerland in such areas as manufacturing industry, IT, culture, tourism, education, and science.

Within the framework of their business programme, the guests from the Swiss Confederation visited the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade. The delegation was met by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan German Lerner. The main purpose of their visit to the republic is the issues of the investment, administrative climate and legislative regulation in Tatarstan.

Representatives of Swiss companies (Swiss Textiles, Philip Morris International, Sika, Clariant Russia, and others), who were present at the meeting, were able to ask questions, studied the partners’ proposals, and present their enterprises for further cooperation with industrialists from Tatarstan.

At the end of the meeting, Swiss and Tatarstan representatives expressed their desire to discuss cooperation in detail, based on the proposals set forth at the meeting, and to agree on arranging B2B meetings for both parties’ enterprises in the future.

Today, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Ildar Mingaleyev welcomed Deputy Minister of Textile Industry of Turkmenistan Velamukhammet Shykhgulyev. The meeting was held as part of the Turkmenistan delegation visit to Tatarstan and on the eve of the 6th meeting of the Joint Turkmenistan-Tatarstan working group to be held on May 24 at the Kazan Palace Hotel by Tasigo.

At the meeting, issues of cooperation were discussed between Turkmenistan and light industry enterprises in Tatarstan. Representatives of republic’s light industry companies who were present at the meeting expressed their preparedness to cooperate with Turkmenistan in the field of textile industry, such as purchases of yarn, fabrics, and wool.