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On September 9, in Kazan, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov received the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan – Minister of Tourism and Sports Aziz Abdukhakimov.

At the reception, Tatarstan was represented by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Zyabbarov, Chairman of the State Committee for Tourism Sergey Ivanov, representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Kazan Radik Vakhitov, First Deputy Minister of Sports Khalil Shaikhutdinov, as well as Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Geman Lerner, from the Uzbek side – Consul General of Uzbekistan in Tatarstan Farid Nasriev, Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee Oybek Kasimov and Deputy Khokim of Tashkent region Jamshid Babadzhanov.

The President of Tatarstan noted that all visits at the highest level, regular intergovernmental and interagency meetings are vivid evidence of effective and stable cooperation between Uzbekistan and Tatarstan, adding that the visit of the Uzbek delegation to Kazan once again confirms this.