Ilsur Metshin: “Kazan has every chance to become the youth capital of Europe”

(KZN.RU, June 3). Kazan entered the final five contenders for the title in the competition “Youth Capital of Europe 2022”. This became known during the session of the Youth Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member States in the Kazan City Hall. The capital of Tatarstan has every chance of becoming a European youth capital, said Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, at the Business Monday today.

A joint meeting of the Youth Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the States and the Council on Youth Affairs of the CIS Member States was held for the first time on May 30 in the Kazan City Hall, said Airat Faizov, the chairman of the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs. The heads of government bodies for youth affairs in the CIS countries, as well as Tatiana Lebedeva, a member of the Council of the Federal Assembly of the RF, and Grigory Petushkov, the chairman of the “National Council of Youth and Children's Associations of Russia”, attended the meeting. The session participants exchanged information on the implementation of the Strategy for International Cooperation of the CIS countries until 2020. They discussed the participation of young people in events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

In his report, G. Petushkov announced that Kazan had entered the final five contenders for the title in the “Youth Capital of Europe 2022” competition. “By a joint decision of the session participants, the resolution of the seminar included a decision on the support of Kazan by all member countries”, said A. Faizov.

“More and more youth forums are being held in Kazan”, said Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan. “Our students not only show their knowledge, high culture, education at various stages, but also win in student forums, occupy the first places in competitions. We could and should claim the status of the youth capital, we have everything so that this status will be ours”.