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Council of Europe: Tatarstan – example for the entire world
“What we see in Kazan and Tatarstan is the example for the entire world”, - stated the EC Commissioner on human rights Alvaro Gil-Robles at the meeting with President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev during international seminar “Dialogue, tolerance, education: joint efforts of the Council of Europe and religious communities” held February 22 in Kazan. By his words, he was proposed to hold this seminar in Toledo, “but I replied that Toledo is history, and Kazan is the present day, today it can be the example of mutual understanding”.
“What we see in Kazan and Tatarstan is the example for the entire world”, - stated the EC Commissioner on human rights Alvaro Gil-Robles at the meeting with President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev during international seminar “Dialogue, tolerance, education: joint efforts of the Council of Europe and religious communities” held February 22 in Kazan. By his words, he was proposed to hold this seminar in Toledo, “but I replied that Toledo is history, and Kazan is the present day, today it can be the example of mutual understanding”.
IA “Rosbalt”, February 22, 2006