OREANDA-NEWS. Matters pertaining to development of international trade and congress/exhibition industry were discussed at the meeting organized within the framework of the visit to the Republic of Tatarstan by Vladimir Salamatov, Director General of JSC WTC.

V. Salamatov also participated in working meetings with Ravil Zaripov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Minister for Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Shamil Ageev, Chairman of the RT CCI, Member of the Board of the RF CCI.

The first session of the joint working group on establishment of a World Trade Center in Kazan was held in the Conference Hall of the Ministry for Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Tatarstan.

World Trade Center Moscow was represented by Vladimir Salamatov, WTCM Director General; Vera Ionova, Director of the WTCM Congress Center, and Oleg Sazonov, Head of the WTCM Department of International and Regional Development.

Republic of Tatarstan was represented at the meeting by Ravil Zaripov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Minister for Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Tatarstan, Head of the Working Group; Rustam Nigmatullin, First Deputy Chairman of the Kazan Executive Committee on Economics, Transport, Land and Property Matters; Ruslan Kabirov, First Deputy Minister for Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Tatarstan; Gulnara Akhmadeeva, Deputy Minister for Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Tatarstan; Artem Zdunov, Deputy Minister for Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan; representatives of the ministries and governmental agencies of the Republic, as well as of investment companies.