KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 (Bernama) — Fifty-nine countries are taking part in the ongoing 13th International Economic Summit: Russia-Islamic World (Kazan Summit), Russia’s largest platform for cooperation with the Islamic world.
The three day summit began on Thursday at Kazan City, which is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, which witnessed the participation of 44 Muslim countries, among the total 59 countries. Kazan has received the status of “OIC Youth Capital – 2022”.
Russia’s Embassy in Malaysia told Bernama that 150 Russian and foreign companies are taking part in the summit which also features a Russia Halal Expo, World Halal Day, which is one of the events of the World Halal Summit, and events dedicated to the 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by the Volga Bulgaria. The embassy said that an epoch-making event in the history of the Tatar people was the adoption of Islam by their ancestors as the state religion.
In May 922, Islam was proclaimed the state religion of Volga Bulgaria, a state located on the territory of the Middle Volga region and the Kama region in the X-XIII centuries, it said.
The summit is being organised by the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency. According to the organiser, the main objectives of the Kazan Summi is to strengthen trade, economic, scientific, technical, social and cultural ties between the regions of the Russian Federation and the countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), as well as to promote the development of the institutions of the Islamic financial system in Russia.
- BERNAMA
