Rustam Minnikhanov meets the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation Pavan Kapoor

On 29 September in his office in the Kazan Kremlin, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation Pavan Kapoor who came to Kazan to take part in the V session of the Moscow Format of Consultations on Afghanistan.

The Indian Ambassador thanked Rustam Minnikhanov for a warm reception. “It is my special pleasure to be here in Kazan to discuss prospects of cooperation between India and Tatarstan,” he said.

Welcoming his guest, Rustam Minnikhanov said that relations between Russia and India are based on solid traditions of friendship and mutual respect and develop in the spirit of specially privileged strategic partnership, which was not once emphasized during meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.

Tatarstan is making its contribution into the development of Russia-India relations by exchanging visits and receiving numerous Indian business missions, he said.

Rustam Minnikhanov emphasized that recently there is a growth of mutual trade turnover but it is necessary to ramp up our business contacts, in particular by organizing business delegations which can help to define which spheres are interesting for mutually beneficial cooperation.

The Rais of Tatarstan made a brief presentation of Tatarstan as one of the leading and industrially developed entities of Russia and invited Indian colleagues to take part in events to be held in Kazan in 2024, including the International Economic Forum “Russia-Islamic World: “KazanForum” which is the main federal platform for interaction of Russia and Muslim countries and in the international championship “The Games of the Future”.

Another important even to be held in Kazan next year is the summit of head of BRICS and BRICS+ countries, and the region is actively preparing for this large-scale event, Rustam Minnikhanov concluded.