30.04.2015 Ankara
President of the Republic of Tartary Rustam Minnihanov visited TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu. Four important cooperation agreements were signed. The Business Council to be established will prepare its action plan for speeding up economic and financial activities within three months. Minnihanov expressed their desire to increase cooperation, inviting Turkish companies to use Tartary as a staging area for doing business in the Russian market. He invited Turkish companies to invest.
President of the Republic of Tartary Rustam Minnihanov and the delegation
accompanying him visited TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu. During the
meeting wherein the economic and commercial relations between the two countries
were discussed, cooperation agreements were signed between TOBB and the Tartary
Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Tartary Academy of Sciences and TEPAV, TOBB
ETÜ and the Turkish Academy of Sciences separately. The Joint Business
Committee to be established as a part of the cooperation agreement signed
between TOBB and the Tartary Chamber of Commerce and Industry will prepare a
Joint Action Plan for speeding up economic and financial activities.
Many ministers, mayors and heads of various institutions and
establishments as well as high level bureaucrats and businessmen accompanied
the visiting President while the TOBB Board Members were also present during
the meeting.
- Minnihanov urges cooperation
President of the Republic of Tartary Rustam Minnihanov expressed their
desire to increase cooperation, inviting Turkish companies to use Tartary as a
staging area for doing business in the Russian market. He said, “We want to
grow our cooperation based on mutual benefit and fully utilize our potential.”
Speaking in regards to the various opportunities for cooperation, Tartary
President invited Turkish companies to invest in Tartary, pointing out that
they export over 50% of their industrial goods.
- Unbroken logistical chain from
field to table
TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, pointing out that a new point
has been reached in Turkey, Russian and Tartary relations and said, “At this
point, we can’t look at our relations as just Turkey’s fresh fruits exports to
the Russian Federation. We should be talking about partnerships comprised of
the companies of both countries, forming an unbroken logistical chain all the
way from the field, to the tables in our homes.”
Stressing that this understanding should be spread to all sectors, not
just food and agriculture, Hisarcıklıoğlu pointed to the importance of the
automotive sector for Tartary. Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that they, as the Union of
Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, are ready to cooperate in order to
develop economic relations between Turkey and the Russian Federation in this
manner.