Irek Faizullin meets with General Director of Thuringia Agency

On March 27 at his meeting with General  Director of Thuringia Agency of economic development Andreas Krai, Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov welcomed members of the delegation and thanked Thuringia leadership for attention paid to Tatarstan. 

Minister of industry and trade Ravil Zaripov, Minister of construction, architecture and housing of Tatarstan Irek Faizullin, Minister of health of the Republic Adel Vafin, head of the agency of  investment development  Linar Yakupov also took part in the meeting. 

Ildar Khalikov noted that Germany is one of the main partners of the republic, trade turnover between Germany and Tatarstan in 2013 made 1.6 billion dollars. He briefly told about major projects being implemented in the republic. 

Andreas Krai welcomed Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov on behalf of Thuringia Prime Minister Christina Liberkneht and said that she is going to visit Tatarstan with Thuringia businessmen in June. 

According to Andreas Krai, representatives of ten German companies, producing automotive components, are on the delegation. 

New joint projects in the sphere of medicine were also discussed at the meeting. 

Summing up, Ildar Khalikov was glad that there are new prospective areas of cooperation between Tatarstan and Thuringia. He also called for developing interuniversity interaction and achieving certain results by the visit of Thuringia Prime Minister in June.