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Worldwide recognition of KAZANSUMMIT
On June 20-21, 2011 Kazan welcomed guests and participants from around the world to the III International Islamic Business and Finance Summit. The opening ceremony of the Summit was attended by Rustam Minnikhanov, President of Tatarstan, Ildar Khalikov, Prime Minister, Kamil Iskhakov, Permanent representative of Russia to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Linar Yakupov, Chairman of the Summit Organizing Committee, Chief Executive, Tatarstan Investment Development Agency. Besides, the summit was attended by foreign guests, among them were Allal Rachdi, Director General of the Islamic Centre for Development of Trade (ICDT), Lord Nazir Ahmed, member of the British House of Lords and many others. 

Rustam Minnikhanov in his welcome speech said that today we observe an active process of rapprochement between Russia and the Islamic world. In the future Russia should become one of the key players in the fast-growing Islamic finance market. In its turn, Tatarstan should become vanguard of this very process. Our republic, according to the President of Tatarstan, has a great economic potential for cooperation with the leading countries of the Muslim world.